Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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

Bible

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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.

13.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

14.

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

Renard, Jules

15.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

16.

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.

17.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

18.

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

19.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

20.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Laurence J. Peter

23.

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

24.

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

Lucan, F. L.

25.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

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

Greer, Germaine

28.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

29.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Wallenda, Karl

32.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

33.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

34.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

35.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

36.

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

Mizner, Wilson

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

40.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

41.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

42.

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

43.

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

Russell, Bertrand

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb

47.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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.