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

1.

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

Shakespeare, William

2.

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

Syrus, Publilius

3.

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

4.

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

Shenstone, William

5.

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

Floyd, Pink

6.

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

7.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

8.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

9.

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

Maxim, Samurai

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

13.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

14.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

Freud, Sigmund

17.

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

18.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

The best answer to anger is silence.

21.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

22.

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

Plato

23.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

25.

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

Mizner, Wilson

26.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Boyes, John F.

29.

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

Bible

30.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

31.

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

Thurber, James

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

35.

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

36.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

37.

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

38.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

39.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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.

41.

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