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

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

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

Pope, Alexander

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Sarnoff, David

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Proverb

10.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Boyes, John F.

14.

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

Joubert, Joseph

15.

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.

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

19.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

21.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Angelou, Maya

23.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

24.

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

25.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

26.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

27.

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

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

29.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

33.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

34.

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

Renard, Jules

35.

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

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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

37.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Quarles, Francis

44.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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