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

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

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.

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

Shenstone, William

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.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Ruskin, John

13.

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

14.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Quarles, Francis

20.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

21.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

22.

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

23.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

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

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.

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

Plato

27.

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

Ellis, Havelock

28.

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

Mizner, Wilson

29.

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

30.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

31.

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

Proverb

32.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

33.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

35.

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

Bible

36.

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.

37.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

38.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

40.

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

41.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

42.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

43.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

44.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

45.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

46.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.