Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bible

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Lucan, F. L.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

10.

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

Thurber, James

11.

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

12.

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

Plato

13.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

14.

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

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Mizner, Wilson

17.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

24.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

25.

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

26.

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

Quarles, Francis

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

31.

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

Hugo, Victor

32.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

33.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

Russell, Bertrand

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

Emily Dickinson

38.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

39.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

40.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Hull, Bobby

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

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

Bible

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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