Anger Quotes

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

Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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

I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.

Adrienne E. Gusoff

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - To live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283

Stranger in a strange country.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

Alexander Hamilton

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.

Nancy Asto

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

William Arthur Ward

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Greek Prove

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Hebrews 13: 2

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

Franklin P. Jones

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

Elizabeth I, in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.

David Borenstein

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 dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Pythagoras

Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.

Arab Prove

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

Anger is a bad counselor.

French Prove

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

Geof Greenleaf

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

Henry Steele

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Margaret Hilda Thatche

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

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Mark Twain

Advertising is like learning - - A little is a dangerous thing.

P Barnum

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

George Bernard Shaw

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Hellen Kelle

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Voltaire

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Pablo Picasso

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin

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

G. M. Trevelyan

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Sallust

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

Joan Rivers

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