Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Maxim, Samurai

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Joubert, Joseph

2.

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

3.

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

Shakespeare, William

4.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

5.

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

Mizner, Wilson

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

9.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Dyer, Wayne

11.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

12.

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

Ellis, Havelock

13.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

14.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

15.

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

16.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

17.

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

Hugo, Victor

18.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

19.

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

George, David Lloyd

20.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

21.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

Shenstone, William

23.

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

Emily Dickinson

24.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

25.

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

Freud, Sigmund

26.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

27.

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

28.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

31.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

32.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

33.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

34.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

35.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

38.

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

39.

The best answer to anger is silence.

40.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

43.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

47.

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

48.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

49.

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

Proverb

50.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink