Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

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

Boyes, John F.

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Shenstone, William

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

10.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

11.

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

Ellis, Havelock

12.

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

Horace

13.

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

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

Emily Dickinson

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

19.

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

20.

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

Mario Puzo

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Baldwin, James

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

28.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Webster, John

31.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

32.

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

Joubert, Joseph

33.

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

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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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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.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Floyd, Pink

40.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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

Laurence J. Peter

42.

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

43.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Seneca

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

46.

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

Churchill, Winston

47.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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

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