Motivational Quotes

Anger

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

- Quincey, Thomas De

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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

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

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

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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.

10.

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

Hull, Bobby

11.

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

12.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

Ellis, Havelock

15.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

16.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

17.

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

Freud, Sigmund

18.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Greg Evans

20.

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

Sarnoff, David

21.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

22.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

23.

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

Floyd, Pink

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

26.

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

Mizner, Wilson

27.

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

Quarles, Francis

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Maxim, Samurai

31.

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

Greer, Germaine

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

37.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

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

Laurence J. Peter

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

Lucan, F. L.

41.

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

Dickinson, Emily

42.

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.

43.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

44.

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

Angelou, Maya

45.

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

Akhenaton

46.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

47.

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

48.

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

Hugo, Victor

49.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

50.

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

Syrus, Publilius