Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Fuller, Thomas

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Sarnoff, David

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

13.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

14.

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

15.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

16.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

17.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

19.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

20.

The best answer to anger is silence.

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

25.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

26.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

27.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

28.

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

Dickinson, Emily

29.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

30.

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

Thurber, James

31.

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

Lucan, F. L.

32.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

33.

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

34.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

35.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

36.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

37.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Emily Dickinson

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

George, David Lloyd

45.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

48.

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.

49.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

50.

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

Freud, Sigmund