Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

2.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

3.

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

4.

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

Maxim, Samurai

5.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

6.

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

Emily Dickinson

7.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

8.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

9.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

10.

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

Bacon, Francis

11.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

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

Greg Evans

13.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

15.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

16.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

17.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

18.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

19.

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

Joubert, Joseph

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

23.

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

Freud, Sigmund

24.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

28.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

29.

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

30.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

31.

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

32.

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

Seneca

33.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

34.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

35.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

36.

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

37.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

38.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

39.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

40.

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

Laurence J. Peter

41.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

42.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

43.

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

Boyes, John F.

44.

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

Lucan, F. L.

45.

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