Anger Quotes

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

Eric Sevareid

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Titus Plautus

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

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Elizabeth I, in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625

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

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

Robert Ingersoll

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

Marcel Proust

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

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

When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.

Pierre Corneille, Le Cid (1637)

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

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.

Edmund Burke

We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.

Alanis Morissette

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Great anger is more destructive than the sword.

Tamil Prove

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose.

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

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 strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

Homer, The Odyssey

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

Hermocrates of Syracuse

No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well - - Parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

Benjamin Disraeli

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)

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

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

Geof Greenleaf

To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Sylvia Plath

Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one.

Benjamin Franklin

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy