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

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

4.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

5.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

6.

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

7.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

8.

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

Edwards, Tryon

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

Laurence J. Peter

11.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

13.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

14.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

15.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

16.

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

Thurber, James

17.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

18.

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

19.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Buddha

22.

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

23.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

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

Bacon, Francis

25.

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.

26.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

27.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

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

George, David Lloyd

29.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

30.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

31.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

32.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

33.

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

Maxim, Samurai

34.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Syrus, Publilius

39.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Quarles, Francis

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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.

45.

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

Akhenaton

46.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

47.

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

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

50.

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