Motivational Quotes

Anger

Between the anvil and the hammer.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Renard, Jules

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Halifax, Edward F.

10.

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

Joubert, Joseph

11.

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

Emily Dickinson

12.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Mckay, David O.

16.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Syrus, Publilius

20.

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

21.

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

Seneca

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Quarles, Francis

25.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

26.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

27.

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

Angelou, Maya

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

Plato

30.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Buddha

34.

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

37.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

38.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

39.

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

Boyes, John F.

40.

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

41.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

42.

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

43.

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

Sarnoff, David

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