Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Shakespeare, William

2.

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

Thurber, James

3.

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

4.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

5.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

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

7.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

8.

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

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

Emily Dickinson

11.

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

Hull, Bobby

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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

Mizner, Wilson

15.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

16.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

21.

The best answer to anger is silence.

22.

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

23.

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

Freud, Sigmund

24.

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

Laurence J. Peter

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

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

Ellis, Havelock

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Webster, John

30.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Wallenda, Karl

32.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

33.

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

Bible

34.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

35.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

36.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

37.

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

Russell, Bertrand

38.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

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

Quarles, Francis

41.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

42.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

43.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

44.

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.

45.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

46.

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

Greg Evans

47.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

49.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

50.

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

Edwards, Tryon