Motivational Quotes

Anger

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

2.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

3.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

4.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

5.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

6.

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

Lucan, F. L.

7.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

8.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

9.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

11.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

14.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

15.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

16.

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

Quarles, Francis

17.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

18.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

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

Buddha

20.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

21.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

22.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

23.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

24.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

25.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

26.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

27.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

28.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

29.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

31.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

35.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

36.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

37.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

39.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

40.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.