Anger Quotes

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

G. M. Trevelyan

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 out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Suppressed introductory chapter, first published 1939, Penguin edition p. 23

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave", 1945

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

Charles Lindberg

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

Wu Ting - Fang

I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - And so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - Brave men - will make it so.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.

Democritus

I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.

Adrienne E. Gusoff

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Albert Einstein

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

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

Vladimir Nabokov

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.

Pierre Corneille, Le Cid (1637)

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

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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

Mark Twain

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Tennessee Williams

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.

Henry David Thoreau

Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.

Unknown

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

Roosevelt, Eleano

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

Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.

Kongming (Zhuge Liang)

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Yoda, Character in the Star Wars Saga

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

Thomas Fulle

Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of wa.

Hermocrates of Syracuse

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.

Unknown

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Richard Baxte

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

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

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

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richte

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