Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bierce, Ambrose

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Webster, John

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Plato

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

Proverb

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Hugo, Victor

11.

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

12.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Boyes, John F.

15.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

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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

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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

23.

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

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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

25.

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

26.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

27.

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

28.

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

29.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

32.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

35.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

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

Bible

37.

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

Thurber, James

38.

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

Lucan, F. L.

39.

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

Hull, Bobby

40.

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

Ellis, Havelock

41.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

42.

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

43.

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

Dickinson, Emily

44.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

45.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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

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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

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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.