Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Proverb

10.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

11.

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

12.

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

Hull, Bobby

13.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

14.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

15.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

16.

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

17.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

18.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

19.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

20.

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.

21.

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

Joubert, Joseph

22.

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

23.

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

Wallenda, Karl

24.

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

Maxim, Samurai

25.

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

Shenstone, William

26.

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

27.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

31.

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

32.

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

Bacon, Francis

33.

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.

34.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

35.

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

36.

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

37.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

38.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

39.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

40.

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

Greer, Germaine

41.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Bible

45.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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