Motivational Quotes

Anger

Between the anvil and the hammer.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Dyer, Wayne

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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

Renard, Jules

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

11.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

12.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

13.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Quarles, Francis

15.

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

Ellis, Havelock

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

17.

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

Wallenda, Karl

18.

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

19.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

20.

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

Joubert, Joseph

21.

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

22.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Webster, John

27.

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

Russell, Bertrand

28.

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

29.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

30.

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

35.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

36.

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

Syrus, Publilius

37.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

38.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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.

40.

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.

41.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

42.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

43.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

47.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

48.

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.

49.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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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