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

1.

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

2.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

3.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

4.

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

5.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

6.

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

Lucan, F. L.

7.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

8.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

11.

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

Plato

12.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Freud, Sigmund

16.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Laurence J. Peter

20.

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

Pope, Alexander

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

23.

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

Sarnoff, David

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

26.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

27.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

28.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

29.

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

30.

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

Buddha

31.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

34.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

35.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

36.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

37.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

38.

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.

39.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

40.

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

Hull, Bobby

41.

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

42.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

43.

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.

44.

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

Mckay, David O.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Baldwin, James

50.

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