Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

12.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

14.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

15.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

16.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

17.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

18.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

19.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

20.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

21.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

22.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

24.

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

George, David Lloyd

25.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

26.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

27.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

28.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

29.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

34.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

35.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Sarnoff, David

37.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

38.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

39.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

40.

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

Ellis, Havelock

41.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Proverb, Malabar

44.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

45.

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

46.

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

Epictetus

47.

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

48.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

49.

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

Shakespeare, William

50.

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.