Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Maxim, Samurai

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

10.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

11.

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

12.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

13.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

14.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

16.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

17.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

18.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

19.

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

Hull, Bobby

20.

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

Greer, Germaine

21.

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

Wallenda, Karl

22.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

23.

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

Laurence J. Peter

24.

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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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

26.

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

27.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

33.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

Buddha

36.

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

Ellis, Havelock

37.

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

Shenstone, William

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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

39.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

The best answer to anger is silence.

42.

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

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

45.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

48.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

49.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

50.

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