Muhammad Ali Quotes

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

There was one point in time that I wasn't fighting, and I was frustrated and I was getting in trouble.

People who don't understand fighting think you need to hate somebody to beat them. But I keep hate and anger out of boxing, because it causes mistakes.

Living without hate for people is almost impossible. There is nothing wrong with fantasizing about revenge. You can have that feeling. You just shouldn't act in it.

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

I hate wack niggas, I should really slap niggas.

I don't mean to hate people, I just get forced into it.

Well, she was talking to me. That's enough to make anyone lose their temper. And I accused her of sleeping with my dad because he was the soundest evolutionary choice.

Anger should never be permitted to rise in our bosoms, and words suggested by angry feelings should never be permitted to pass our lips. 'A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger'.

Never anger made good guard for itself.

To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

I matched my heated tone with one of pure ice. "I believe I did attempt to relate to you the facts of my calls and you interrupted me with a rather magnificent display of temper much as you are doing now. If you do not have all the facts of the case perhaps you have no one but yourself to blame." Brisbane opened his mouth and shut it with a snap. His mouth remained closed but I could hear him muttering under his breath. "What are you saying?" "I am counting. To one hundred. In Cantonese.

Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.

Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?

Whenever thy hand can reach it, tear out the foe's brain, for such an opportunity washes anger from the mind.

One of the reasons some people get so angry with me is because I have the space now that a lot of others who think like me don't.

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven.

Remind me," he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, "to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja?

I don't like seeing people angry.

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.

The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression.

I do get very angry at things. My wife has to count to ten because if she gets annoyed at me being annoyed, then I get annoyed at her being annoyed at me being annoyed.

I get annoyed with rushing. Then I get in a bad mood - I'm so cranky. I hate being late.

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.