Motivational Quotes

Anger

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

2.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

3.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

4.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

5.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

6.

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.

7.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

8.

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

Churchill, Winston

9.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Emily Dickinson

12.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

13.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

14.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

15.

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

16.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

17.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

19.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

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

Floyd, Pink

21.

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.

22.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

23.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

24.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

25.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Epictetus

27.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

28.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

29.

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

Dickinson, Emily

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

34.

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

35.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

36.

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

37.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

38.

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

Mizner, Wilson

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

41.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

42.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

43.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

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

Wallenda, Karl

45.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

46.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

47.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

48.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

49.

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.

50.

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.