Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Buddha

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Russell, Bertrand

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Boyes, John F.

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

12.

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.

13.

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

Dickinson, Emily

14.

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

15.

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

Ruskin, John

16.

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

Plato

17.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Edwards, Tryon

22.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

23.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

24.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

25.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

26.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

27.

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

28.

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

Hull, Bobby

29.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

31.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

32.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

35.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

36.

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

37.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

Lucan, F. L.

42.

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

43.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

44.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

45.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

46.

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

47.

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

48.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

49.

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

50.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner