Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

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

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

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

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

10.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

12.

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

Bible

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Thurber, James

15.

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

16.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

17.

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

Pope, Alexander

18.

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

19.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

20.

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

21.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Bible

24.

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

Quarles, Francis

25.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

26.

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

Dickinson, Emily

27.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

28.

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

29.

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

Fuller, Thomas

30.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Buddha

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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

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

Proverb

38.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

39.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

40.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

44.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

45.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Angelis, Barbara De

48.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Ruskin, John