Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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

Bacon, Francis

3.

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

Emily Dickinson

4.

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

Greg Evans

5.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

6.

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

7.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

8.

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

9.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

10.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

11.

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

12.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

14.

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

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

16.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

17.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

Buddha

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Malabar

25.

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

Mario Puzo

26.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

27.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

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

29.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

32.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

33.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

34.

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

Sarnoff, David

35.

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

Plato

36.

The best answer to anger is silence.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Hull, Bobby

40.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

41.

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

42.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

43.

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

45.

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

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

48.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

49.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.