Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Anger

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Fuller, Thomas

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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

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

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

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

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

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

13.

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

Seneca

14.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

15.

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

Hull, Bobby

16.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

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

Renard, Jules

18.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

19.

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

Syrus, Publilius

20.

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

Bible

21.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

22.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

23.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

24.

The best answer to anger is silence.

25.

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

Joubert, Joseph

26.

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

Quarles, Francis

27.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

29.

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.

30.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

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

32.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

35.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

36.

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

37.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

38.

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

Lucan, F. L.

39.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

40.

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

Boyes, John F.

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

45.

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

Dyer, Wayne

46.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

47.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

48.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

49.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

50.

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