Anger Quotes
When anger rises, think of the consequences.Confucius
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
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.William Proxmire
Anger is the only thing to put off until tomorrow.Czech Prove
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.Carl Jung
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - - At what we did or did not do.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.George Washington
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.Sydney Harris
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
There is danger in both belief and unbelief.Phaedrus
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.Machiavelli
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.Bhagavad Gita
Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailo
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.Homer, The Odyssey
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.Bible, Proverbs 15: 1 (KJV)
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true.Logan Pearsall Smith
Having had to encounter single - Handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.Joseph Conrad
Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear But around you in awareness.Ross Hersey
Live dangerously and you live right.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (1806)
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.Earl of Chesterfield
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.Franklin P. Jones
I think that the Communist Party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States. It has no following and has been disregarded by the American people for many, many years.Robert F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.David Borenstein
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.George Eliot
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.Queen Elizabeth
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.Delmore Schwartz
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
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!Friedrich Nietzsche
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.Mark Twain
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
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
In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.Robert G. Ingersoll
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.Francis Quarles
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.Thomas Jefferson
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.Yoda, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
