Motivational Quotes

Anger

When the danger is past God is cheated.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Plato

10.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

11.

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.

12.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

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

Lucan, F. L.

17.

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

George, David Lloyd

18.

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

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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

20.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

24.

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

Greer, Germaine

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

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

Dickinson, Emily

28.

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

Ruskin, John

29.

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

Ellis, Havelock

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

31.

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

Horace

32.

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

Joubert, Joseph

33.

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

Sarnoff, David

34.

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

Thurber, James

35.

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

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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

37.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

38.

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

Boyes, John F.

39.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

Bacon, Francis

44.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

45.

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.

46.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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.

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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