Motivational Quotes

Anger

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Syrus, Publilius

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

10.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

11.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Lucan, F. L.

14.

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

Freud, Sigmund

15.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

Wallenda, Karl

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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

19.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

20.

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

Emily Dickinson

21.

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

Maxim, Samurai

22.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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.

24.

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

Proverb

25.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

29.

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

Ellis, Havelock

30.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

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

Bible

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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

38.

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

39.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

40.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Carlyle, Thomas