Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Sarnoff, David

2.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

3.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

5.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

6.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

7.

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.

8.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

9.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

10.

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

11.

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

Ellis, Havelock

12.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

13.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

14.

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

Seneca

15.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

16.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

17.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

18.

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

Russell, Bertrand

19.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

20.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

23.

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

24.

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

25.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

26.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

27.

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.

28.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

29.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

31.

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

Horace

32.

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

Proverb

33.

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

Ruskin, John

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

36.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

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

38.

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

40.

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

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

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

Wallenda, Karl

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

47.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

49.

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

50.

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