Motivational Quotes

Anger

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

- Chapman, George

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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.

2.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

3.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

4.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

5.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

6.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

7.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

8.

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

9.

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

11.

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

Bacon, Francis

12.

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

Proverb, Malabar

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

15.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

17.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

21.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

24.

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

Laurence J. Peter

25.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

26.

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

Sarnoff, David

27.

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

Maxim, Samurai

28.

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

29.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

30.

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

Ellis, Havelock

31.

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

Emily Dickinson

32.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

33.

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

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

36.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

37.

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

Mizner, Wilson

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

40.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

41.

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

42.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

43.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

44.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Thurber, James

48.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

49.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

50.

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