Motivational Quotes

Anger

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Wallenda, Karl

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

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

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

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

11.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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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

14.

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.

15.

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

Webster, John

16.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

20.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

21.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

Ellis, Havelock

24.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb

27.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

28.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

29.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

31.

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

Russell, Bertrand

32.

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

Epictetus

33.

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

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

37.

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

Bacon, Francis

38.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

39.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

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

Buddha

41.

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

42.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

43.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

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.

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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

47.

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

48.

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

George, David Lloyd

49.

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

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine