Motivational Quotes

Anger

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Anger

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Proverb

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.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shenstone, William

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

Proverb

10.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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.

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

16.

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

Webster, John

17.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

18.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

19.

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

Maxim, Samurai

20.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

21.

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

Quarles, Francis

22.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

23.

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

Bible

24.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

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

Russell, Bertrand

30.

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

31.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

32.

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

Dickinson, Emily

33.

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

34.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

35.

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

36.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

37.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

38.

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

39.

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

Akhenaton

40.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

41.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

43.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

45.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

46.

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

47.

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

Lucan, F. L.

48.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

49.

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

50.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth