Motivational Quotes

Anger

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Seneca

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.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Sarnoff, David

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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.

10.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Bible

16.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Plato

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

20.

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.

21.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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.

25.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

26.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

Boyes, John F.

28.

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

Hull, Bobby

29.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

30.

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

Wallenda, Karl

31.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

33.

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

34.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

35.

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

Mario Puzo

36.

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

Edwards, Tryon

37.

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

Buddha

38.

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

Joubert, Joseph

39.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

41.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

42.

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

Webster, John

43.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

45.

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

46.

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

Maxim, Samurai

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

Churchill, Winston

49.

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.