Quotes about anger

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

— Francis Quarles

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

— Thomas De Quincey

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

— Jules Renard

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.

— James Whitcomb Riley

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

— John Ruskin

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Robert H. Schuller

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

— Thomas Secker

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

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

— Seneca

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

— Seneca

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

— Seneca

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

— William Shenstone

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

— Sri Swami Sivananda

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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!

— George Sweeting

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

— Publilius Syrus

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

— James Thurber

Depression is rage spread thin.

— Paul Tillich

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

— Martin Tupper

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

— Mark Twain

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

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.

— Source Unknown

The best answer to anger is silence.

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

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.

— Alan W. Watts

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

— Daniel Webster

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

— John Webster

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

— Elwyn Brooks White

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

— Samuel Johnson

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

— Haniel Long

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

— Alexander Pope

I do desire we may be better strangers.

— William Shakespeare

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

— Tennessee Williams

Every man is his own chief enemy.

— Anacharsis

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.

— Clara Barton

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

— Richard Baxter

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

— John Mason Brown

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

— Miguel De Cervantes

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

— George Chapman

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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.

— Charles Caleb Colton

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

— Pierre Corneille

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Havelock Ellis

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!

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon as there is life there is danger.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Pink Floyd

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

— David Lloyd George

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

— Baltasar Gracian

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

— Heraclitus

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

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

— Victor Hugo

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

— Thomas H. Huxley

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

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

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

— Helen Keller

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

— Jean De La Fontaine

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— F. L. Lucan

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Danger past, God forgotten.

— Proverb

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

— Proverb

When danger approaches, sing to it.

— Arabian Proverb

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

— Chinese Proverb

Between the anvil and the hammer.

— German Proverb

When the danger is past God is cheated.

— Italian Proverb

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

— Scottish Proverb

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

— Francis Quarles

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

— David Sarnoff

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

— John Selden

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

— Seneca

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

— Marquise De SeVigne

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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.

— Raymond G. Swing

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

— Publilius Syrus

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Karl Wallenda

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

— Sir Hugh Walpole

On occasion, I derive great satisfaction from imagining my destructive powers onto such things as lamp posts, trees, and piles of leaves.

— Natasha Vanderlinden

He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one, that imprisoned in the dark womb of our mother, we come to life without having seen her face, that we are given to her arms a stranger, and that, caught in that insoluble prison of being, we escape it never, no matter what arms may clasp us, what mouth may kiss us, what heart may warm us. Never, never, never, never, never.

— Thomas Wolfe

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

— Germaine Greer