Motivational Quotes

Anger

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

2.

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

3.

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

Fuller, Thomas

4.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

5.

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

6.

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

Bible

7.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

8.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

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

Thurber, James

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

13.

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

Proverb

14.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

15.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

16.

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

17.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

18.

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

19.

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

Maxim, Samurai

20.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

21.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

Shenstone, William

24.

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

Hugo, Victor

25.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

28.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

29.

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

Lucan, F. L.

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

34.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

35.

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

Sarnoff, David

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

42.

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

43.

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

Secker, Thomas

44.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

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.

46.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

47.

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

48.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

49.

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

50.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De