Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

2.

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

3.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

4.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

5.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

6.

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

7.

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

Hull, Bobby

8.

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

9.

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

10.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

13.

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

Greg Evans

14.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

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

16.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

17.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

26.

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

Quarles, Francis

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

28.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

29.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

30.

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

Syrus, Publilius

31.

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

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

34.

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

Plato

35.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

Proverb

38.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

41.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

42.

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

Ruskin, John