Motivational Quotes

Anger

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

12.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

13.

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

Wallenda, Karl

14.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

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.

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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

17.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

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

Mizner, Wilson

20.

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

21.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Bacon, Francis

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Buddha

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Webster, John

30.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

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

Shenstone, William

32.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

33.

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

Thurber, James

34.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

35.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

36.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

37.

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

38.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

42.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

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

45.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

46.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

47.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

48.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Sarnoff, David

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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander