Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Hull, Bobby

Best Quotes about Anger

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Ruskin, John

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

Bible

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

Shenstone, William

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

12.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

13.

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

Secker, Thomas

14.

The best answer to anger is silence.

15.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

16.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

19.

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.

20.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

22.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

23.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

27.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

Maxim, Samurai

30.

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

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

33.

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

Hull, Bobby

34.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

36.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

37.

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

Shakespeare, William

38.

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.

39.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

40.

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

Emily Dickinson

41.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

42.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

43.

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.

44.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Akhenaton

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

48.

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

Ellis, Havelock

49.

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

Buddha

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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