Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

3.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

4.

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

Seneca

5.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

6.

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

Quarles, Francis

7.

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

8.

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

Greer, Germaine

9.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

13.

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.

14.

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

Maxim, Samurai

15.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

20.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

23.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

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

Proverb, Malabar

27.

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.

28.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

29.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

33.

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

34.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

35.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

36.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

37.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

39.

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

40.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

45.

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