Motivational Quotes

Anger

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Pope, Alexander

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Epictetus

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

Bible

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

Proverb

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

10.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

15.

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

Boyes, John F.

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.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

22.

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.

23.

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

Dickinson, Emily

24.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

25.

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.

26.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

28.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

30.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

32.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

34.

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

35.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

36.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

39.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

40.

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

Renard, Jules

41.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

42.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

43.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

44.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

45.

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

Quarles, Francis

46.

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

Dyer, Wayne

47.

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

48.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

49.

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

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

Webster, John