Motivational Quotes

Anger

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

2.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

3.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

4.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

5.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

6.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

7.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

8.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

9.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

10.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

11.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

12.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

13.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

14.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

16.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

17.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

18.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

19.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

20.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

21.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

22.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

23.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

24.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

25.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

26.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

27.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

28.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

29.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

30.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

32.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

33.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

35.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

36.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

37.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

38.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

39.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

40.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

41.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

The best answer to anger is silence.