Motivational Quotes

Anger

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

2.

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.

3.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

4.

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

Seneca

5.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

6.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

7.

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

Shakespeare, William

8.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

9.

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

10.

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

Hull, Bobby

11.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

12.

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.

13.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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.

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

Laurence J. Peter

16.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

17.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

19.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

21.

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

Shenstone, William

22.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

23.

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

Dyer, Wayne

24.

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

25.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

26.

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

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

29.

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

Pope, Alexander

30.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

31.

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

Mizner, Wilson

32.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

33.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

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

35.

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

Greer, Germaine

36.

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

Quarles, Francis

37.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

38.

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

Mckay, David O.

39.

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

Freud, Sigmund

40.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

42.

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

Wallenda, Karl

43.

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

Plato

44.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

45.

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