Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Wallenda, Karl

Best Quotes about Anger

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

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

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

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Greg Evans

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

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

Bacon, Francis

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

10.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

11.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

12.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

13.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

14.

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.

15.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

16.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

18.

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

19.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

20.

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.

21.

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

Mckay, David O.

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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

23.

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Halifax, Edward F.

26.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

27.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

28.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

33.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

34.

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

Lucan, F. L.

35.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

36.

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

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

Quarles, Francis

39.

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

George, David Lloyd

40.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

41.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

42.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

The best answer to anger is silence.

46.

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