Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bible

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb, Malabar

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Quarles, Francis

12.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

13.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

14.

The best answer to anger is silence.

15.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

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

Emily Dickinson

17.

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

Maxim, Samurai

18.

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.

19.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

20.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

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

22.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

23.

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

24.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

25.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

26.

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

Plato

27.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

28.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

29.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

30.

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

Hull, Bobby

31.

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

Akhenaton

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

36.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

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

Ellis, Havelock

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

40.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

41.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

42.

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.

43.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

44.

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

Freud, Sigmund

45.

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

46.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

49.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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