Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Bible

2.

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

3.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

5.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

6.

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

Sarnoff, David

7.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

8.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

9.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

10.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

11.

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

Buddha

12.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

13.

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

14.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

16.

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.

17.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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.

21.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Greg Evans

25.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

26.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

27.

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

Boyes, John F.

28.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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

33.

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

Seneca

34.

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

Bible

35.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

36.

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

37.

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

Freud, Sigmund

38.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

39.

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

40.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]