Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Sarnoff, David

Best Quotes about Anger

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Boyes, John F.

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Mizner, Wilson

12.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

13.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

15.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

17.

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

18.

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

Dickinson, Emily

19.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

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

Bible

21.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

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

Horace

23.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

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

Wallenda, Karl

26.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

27.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

28.

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

Maxim, Samurai

29.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

30.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

31.

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

Syrus, Publilius

32.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

33.

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

Floyd, Pink

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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.

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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

37.

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

38.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

40.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

41.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

42.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

43.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

44.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

49.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin