Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Walpole, Sir Hugh

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Floyd, Pink

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

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

10.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

14.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

16.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

19.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

20.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

24.

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

25.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

27.

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

28.

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

29.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

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

31.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

34.

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

Hull, Bobby

35.

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

Lucan, F. L.

36.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

37.

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

38.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

39.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

41.

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

42.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Russell, Bertrand

45.

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

46.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

47.

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

Churchill, Winston

48.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

50.

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