Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Bible

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Lucan, F. L.

12.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

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.

14.

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

Thurber, James

15.

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

Greg Evans

16.

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.

17.

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

Emily Dickinson

18.

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

Sarnoff, David

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Plato

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

28.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

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

Ruskin, John

30.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

33.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

34.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

35.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

36.

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

Bible

37.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

38.

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

Horace

39.

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

Dyer, Wayne

40.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

41.

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

42.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

43.

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

Proverb

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.