Motivational Quotes

Anger

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Anger

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Epictetus

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Malabar

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

10.

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

Greer, Germaine

11.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

12.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

13.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

15.

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

Bible

16.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Dickinson, Emily

19.

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

Proverb

20.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

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

Hugo, Victor

22.

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

Seneca

23.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

24.

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

25.

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

Hull, Bobby

26.

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

Pope, Alexander

27.

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

Baldwin, James

28.

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

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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

30.

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

31.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

32.

The best answer to anger is silence.

33.

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.

34.

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

Maxim, Samurai

35.

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

36.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

37.

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

38.

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

Bible

39.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

41.

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.

42.

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

Dyer, Wayne

43.

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.

44.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

45.

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

Mizner, Wilson

46.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.