Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Horace

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

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.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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

Shenstone, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

12.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Lucan, F. L.

16.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

17.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

18.

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.

19.

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

Ellis, Havelock

20.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

21.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

26.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

27.

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

Quarles, Francis

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

31.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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

Proverb

33.

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

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

37.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

39.

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

40.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

41.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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

Seneca

45.

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

Thurber, James

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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

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Every man is his own chief enemy.