Motivational Quotes

Anger

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

3.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

4.

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

Proverb, Malabar

5.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

6.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

7.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

8.

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

Secker, Thomas

9.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

10.

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

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

13.

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

14.

The best answer to anger is silence.

15.

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

16.

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

Hull, Bobby

17.

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

18.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

20.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

22.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

23.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

24.

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

25.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

26.

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

Greer, Germaine

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

29.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

30.

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

Pope, Alexander

31.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

32.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

34.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Freud, Sigmund

39.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

40.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

41.

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

Thurber, James

42.

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

Plato

43.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

44.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

47.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

48.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

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

Maxim, Samurai

50.

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