Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

2.

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

3.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

4.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

5.

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

Plato

6.

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

Baldwin, James

7.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

8.

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

9.

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

Wallenda, Karl

10.

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

11.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

12.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

13.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Bible

19.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Dickinson, Emily

23.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

Emily Dickinson

26.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

27.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

28.

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

Mario Puzo

29.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

30.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

31.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

32.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

33.

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

Renard, Jules

34.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

35.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

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

Bible

37.

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.

38.

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

Seneca

41.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

42.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

43.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

44.

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.

45.

The best answer to anger is silence.

46.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

47.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich