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

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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.

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

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Epictetus

10.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Greer, Germaine

12.

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

13.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

14.

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

15.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Freud, Sigmund

20.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

21.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

22.

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

23.

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

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

Mario Puzo

25.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

33.

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

Secker, Thomas

34.

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

Thurber, James

35.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Ruskin, John

37.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

40.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

41.

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

Pope, Alexander

42.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

43.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

45.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

46.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

47.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

48.

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

Bacon, Francis

49.

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.

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

Horace