Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Maxim, Samurai

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

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

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

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Fuller, Thomas

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

11.

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

12.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Bacon, Francis

16.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

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.

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

Emily Dickinson

22.

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

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Proverb

25.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

26.

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

Ellis, Havelock

27.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

28.

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

29.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

31.

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

Boyes, John F.

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Seneca

35.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

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.

37.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

38.

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

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.

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

41.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

42.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

43.

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

44.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

45.

The best answer to anger is silence.

46.

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

Laurence J. Peter

47.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

48.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

49.

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

50.

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.