Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

3.

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

Maxim, Samurai

4.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

5.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

6.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

7.

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

8.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

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

Ellis, Havelock

10.

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

Laurence J. Peter

11.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

12.

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

13.

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

Mizner, Wilson

14.

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

15.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

16.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Emily Dickinson

20.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

21.

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

George, David Lloyd

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

25.

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

Greer, Germaine

26.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

27.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

28.

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

29.

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

30.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

31.

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

Wallenda, Karl

32.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

34.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

35.

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

Thurber, James

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

40.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

41.

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

Shenstone, William

42.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

45.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

46.

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

Proverb, Malabar

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

50.

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

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