Motivational Quotes

Anger

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

- Selden, John

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

3.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

4.

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

5.

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

6.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

7.

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

8.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

9.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

10.

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

11.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

13.

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

14.

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

Renard, Jules

15.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

16.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

17.

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

18.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

19.

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

Webster, John

20.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

21.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

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

23.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

Ellis, Havelock

26.

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

27.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

28.

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

Russell, Bertrand

29.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

30.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Epictetus

35.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

36.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

37.

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

Laurence J. Peter

38.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

39.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

40.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

41.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

42.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

43.

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

44.

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

45.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

46.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

47.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.