Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

- Tupper, Martin

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Buddha

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.

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Dickinson, Emily

12.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

13.

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

14.

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

16.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

17.

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

18.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

19.

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

20.

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

Webster, John

21.

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

22.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

23.

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

25.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

26.

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

Horace

27.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

28.

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

Shenstone, William

29.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

30.

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

Greg Evans

31.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

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

33.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

34.

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

35.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

36.

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

Hull, Bobby

37.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

38.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Maxim, Samurai

43.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

46.

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

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

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

Edwards, Tryon

50.

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