Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Anger

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Buddha

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

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Angelis, Barbara De

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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

Angelou, Maya

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Joubert, Joseph

13.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

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

15.

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

Lucan, F. L.

16.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

21.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

23.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

24.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

27.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

30.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Dyer, Wayne

33.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

34.

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

35.

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

Syrus, Publilius

36.

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

Pope, Alexander

37.

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

Boyes, John F.

38.

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

Ruskin, John

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

44.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

45.

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

46.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

47.

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

Bible

48.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo