Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dickinson, Emily

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Maxim, Samurai

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Floyd, Pink

13.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

14.

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

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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

17.

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

Plato

18.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

19.

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

Proverb, Malabar

20.

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

Seneca

21.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

24.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

25.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Akhenaton

27.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

28.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

30.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

32.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

33.

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

Thurber, James

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

Proverb

35.

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

Bible

36.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

37.

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

Russell, Bertrand

38.

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

39.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

41.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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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

44.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

45.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

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

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