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

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

Ellis, Havelock

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Freud, Sigmund

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

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

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

Mckay, David O.

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.

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

12.

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

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

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

16.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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.

18.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

19.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

20.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Mizner, Wilson

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Renard, Jules

31.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

33.

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

34.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

36.

The best answer to anger is silence.

37.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

38.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

39.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

41.

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.

42.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

43.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

45.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Dickinson, Emily

47.

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

48.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

49.

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

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

Cherie Carter-Scott