Motivational Quotes

Anger

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

2.

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

Greer, Germaine

3.

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

Hull, Bobby

4.

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

Laurence J. Peter

5.

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

6.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

7.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

8.

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

Pope, Alexander

9.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

10.

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

11.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

12.

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

13.

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

Ruskin, John

14.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

15.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

16.

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

Ellis, Havelock

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

21.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

23.

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

Webster, John

24.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

25.

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

26.

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

Shenstone, William

27.

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

Sarnoff, David

28.

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

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

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

32.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

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.

34.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

35.

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

Baldwin, James

36.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

37.

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

Maxim, Samurai

38.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

42.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

43.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

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

Plato

45.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Boyes, John F.

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb

49.

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

50.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth