Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Anger

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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

Seneca

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

10.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

11.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

12.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

13.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

14.

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

Hull, Bobby

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

18.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

19.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

20.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

25.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

26.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

28.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

29.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

30.

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

31.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

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

Mckay, David O.

33.

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

Plato

34.

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

Maxim, Samurai

35.

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

36.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

37.

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

38.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

39.

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

40.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

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

Dickinson, Emily

42.

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

Freud, Sigmund

43.

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.

44.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

50.

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

Francis De Sales, St.