Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

The best answer to anger is silence.

2.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

3.

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

Churchill, Winston

4.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

5.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

6.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

Shakespeare, William

8.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

9.

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

Freud, Sigmund

10.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

11.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

14.

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

Wallenda, Karl

15.

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

16.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

17.

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.

18.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

19.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

20.

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

Baldwin, James

21.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

22.

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

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23.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

28.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

30.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb

33.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

34.

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

35.

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

Shenstone, William

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.

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

Greer, Germaine

38.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

39.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

40.

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

41.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

42.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

46.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

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48.

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

49.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

50.

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

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