Anger Quotes

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

William Bolitho

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.

Pierre Corneille, Le Cid (1637)

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

Francis Quarles

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

Bhagavad Gita

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - - Avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Francesco Petrarch

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

Lucan

The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Richard Baxte

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

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Robert Kennedy

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

Two dangers constantly threaten the world order and disorder.

Paul Valery

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

Sir Arthur Eddington

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Robert Lynd

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

T. E. Lawrence

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams, Journal, 1772

Any religion... is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

T. S. Eliot

A man is measured by the size of things that anger him.

Geof Greenleaf

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Zora Neale Hurston

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

William Faulkne

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Buddha

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Eugene McCarthy

Champions are a rare breed. They trust God while others ask for answers. They step forward while others pray for volunteers. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, the hardships.

Unknown

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

James Thurbe

I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.

Adrienne E. Gusoff

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

George Eliot

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

H. R. Haldeman

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

Saskya Pandita

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Pope John Paul II

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

Euripedes, Medea

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Chinese Prove

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Eric Sevareid

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

For there is no question but a just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Empire

The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.

Albert Einstein