Motivational Quotes

Anger

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

- SeVigne, Marquise De

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bible

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

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Floyd, Pink

10.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

11.

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

Maxim, Samurai

12.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

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

Ruskin, John

14.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

15.

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

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

18.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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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

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

21.

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

Hull, Bobby

22.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

25.

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

Plato

26.

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.

27.

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

Wallenda, Karl

28.

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

Ellis, Havelock

29.

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

30.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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

Angelou, Maya

33.

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

34.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

35.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

36.

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

Freud, Sigmund

37.

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

Bible

38.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

39.

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

Lucan, F. L.

40.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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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

42.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

43.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

44.

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

Buddha

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.