Motivational Quotes

Anger

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

- Akhenaton

Best Quotes about Anger

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

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Proverb

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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.

11.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Quarles, Francis

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

27.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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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

29.

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

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

Proverb

31.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

33.

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

Floyd, Pink

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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.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Boyes, John F.

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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

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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