Motivational Quotes

Anger

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

- Alfredsson, Helen

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Bacon, Francis

2.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

3.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

4.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

5.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

6.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

8.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

9.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

10.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

11.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

12.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

13.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

16.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

The best answer to anger is silence.

18.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

19.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

20.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

21.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

22.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

23.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

24.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

25.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

26.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

27.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

28.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

29.

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

Bible

30.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

31.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

32.

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

33.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

34.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

35.

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

Lucan, F. L.

36.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

37.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

38.

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

Quarles, Francis

39.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

40.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

41.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

42.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

44.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

45.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

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

Bible

47.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

48.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

49.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

50.

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

Halifax, Edward F.