Motivational Quotes

Anger

Every man is his own chief enemy.

- Anacharsis

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Harris, Sidney J.

10.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

12.

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

Bible

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

Landor, Walter Savage

14.

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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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The best answer to anger is silence.

19.

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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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Proverb

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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.

28.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Laurence J. Peter

30.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

31.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

32.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Thurber, James

34.

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

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Emily Dickinson

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

40.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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

Seneca

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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Renard, Jules

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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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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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