Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Bible

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

11.

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.

12.

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

Proverb

13.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

14.

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

Seneca

15.

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

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mckay, David O.

18.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

20.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Sarnoff, David

22.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

23.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

24.

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

Wallenda, Karl

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

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

29.

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

Horace

30.

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

Renard, Jules

31.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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

33.

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

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

35.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

36.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

37.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

38.

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

Buddha

39.

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

40.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

41.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

42.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

43.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

44.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

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

47.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.