Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Greg Evans

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

Webster, John

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bible

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.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

10.

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

11.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

12.

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

13.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

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

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

17.

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.

18.

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.

19.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

21.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

Angelou, Maya

23.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

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

25.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

27.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

28.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

31.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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

33.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

34.

The best answer to anger is silence.

35.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

41.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

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

Boyes, John F.

46.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

48.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

49.

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

50.

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

Churchill, Winston