Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

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

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

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

Ellis, Havelock

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gracian, Baltasar

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb

10.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Epictetus

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

Akhenaton

19.

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

Pope, Alexander

20.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

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

24.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

26.

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

27.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

28.

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

Hugo, Victor

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Hull, Bobby

31.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

32.

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

Mckay, David O.

33.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

34.

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

Angelou, Maya

35.

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

Secker, Thomas

36.

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

Ruskin, John

37.

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

Thurber, James

38.

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

Seneca

39.

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

Greg Evans

40.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

41.

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

42.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

43.

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

Shenstone, William

44.

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

45.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

46.

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

47.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

48.

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

49.

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

Quarles, Francis

50.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.