Anger Quotes

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

Seneca

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

Charles Lindberg

Anger is a bad counselor.

French Prove

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Earl of Chesterfield

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - - Not people to focus your energies on answers - - Not excuses.

William Arthur Ward

The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

Saint Augustine

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?

Hermocrates of Syracuse

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Edward Abbey

I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.

Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000

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, in Healthy Living Magazine

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new.

Machiavelli

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time.

John Stuart Mill

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

English Prove

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

Mark Twain

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies.

Samuel Butle

Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.

Greek Prove

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud puddle.

Gertrude Stein

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.

Anonymous

You were a stranger to sorrow therefore Fate has cursed you.

Euripides

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Socrates

The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a grave danger to the privacy of the individual.

Earl Warren

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

Maggie Kuhn

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor - Edge of danger and must be fought for...

Thornton Wilde

Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, July 7, 2003

Education is like a double - Edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

Wu Ting - Fang