Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Bacon, Francis

2.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

3.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

4.

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

Emily Dickinson

5.

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

Fuller, Thomas

6.

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

Churchill, Winston

7.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

8.

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

Quarles, Francis

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

17.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Maxim, Samurai

19.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb

23.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

24.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

28.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

Proverb, Malabar

31.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

33.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

37.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

38.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Hull, Bobby

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

45.

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

Akhenaton