Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Churchill, Winston

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

14.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

15.

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

Angelou, Maya

16.

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

Greer, Germaine

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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

18.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

19.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Greg Evans

22.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

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

Shenstone, William

24.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

25.

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

Baldwin, James

26.

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

Dyer, Wayne

27.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

28.

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

Maxim, Samurai

29.

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

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

31.

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.

32.

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.

33.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

34.

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.

35.

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

Emily Dickinson

36.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

40.

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

41.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

42.

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

Joubert, Joseph

43.

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

44.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

45.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

46.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

47.

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

Hull, Bobby

48.

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

49.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

50.

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