Motivational Quotes

Anger

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

2.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

3.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

4.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

5.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

6.

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.

7.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

8.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

9.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

10.

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

Hugo, Victor

11.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

12.

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

Laurence J. Peter

13.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

14.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

16.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

17.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

19.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

20.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

21.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

22.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

23.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

25.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

26.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

27.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

30.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

31.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

33.

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.

34.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

36.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

37.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

38.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

39.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

40.

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

Akhenaton

41.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

42.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

43.

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

Secker, Thomas

44.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

45.

The best answer to anger is silence.

46.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

47.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

48.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

49.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

50.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon