Motivational Quotes

Anger

When danger approaches, sing to it.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Maxim, Samurai

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.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Proverb

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

10.

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

11.

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

Plato

12.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

13.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

19.

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

20.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

24.

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

Lucan, F. L.

25.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

30.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

31.

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

Hugo, Victor

32.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

33.

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

34.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

35.

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

Sarnoff, David

36.

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

37.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

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

Bacon, Francis

39.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

40.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

42.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

43.

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

Bible

44.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

45.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

46.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

47.

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

48.

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

Seneca

49.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

50.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius