Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Anger

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Russell, Bertrand

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.

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Emily Dickinson

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

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

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

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

Hugo, Victor

13.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

15.

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.

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

18.

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

Boyes, John F.

19.

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.

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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

21.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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 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

24.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

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

28.

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

Renard, Jules

29.

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

Bible

30.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

32.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

33.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

Bacon, Francis

36.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

38.

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

Joubert, Joseph

39.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

40.

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

Webster, John

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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

42.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

44.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

45.

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

46.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

47.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

48.

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

49.

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

Floyd, Pink

50.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters