Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

11.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

12.

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

13.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

18.

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

Hugo, Victor

19.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

20.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

21.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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

Maxim, Samurai

23.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

24.

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

Quarles, Francis

25.

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

26.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

27.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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.

30.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

31.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

32.

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

Russell, Bertrand

33.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

34.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

35.

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.

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

Seneca

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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

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Akhenaton

40.

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

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I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Epictetus

44.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

45.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

46.

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

47.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

48.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

50.

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