Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

George, David Lloyd

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

10.

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

Bible

11.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

12.

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

13.

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

Bible

14.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

16.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

17.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

18.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

20.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

25.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

28.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

30.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

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

32.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

36.

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

37.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

39.

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

40.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

42.

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.

43.

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

Syrus, Publilius

44.

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

45.

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

Webster, John

46.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

47.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Ellis, Havelock