Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Bible

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Webster, John

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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.

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

Sarnoff, David

10.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

15.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

16.

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

Renard, Jules

17.

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

18.

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

Laurence J. Peter

19.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

20.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

21.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

22.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

31.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

32.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

34.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

35.

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

Baldwin, James

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

38.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

Freud, Sigmund

42.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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