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

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

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

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

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

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

Thurber, James

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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.

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.

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.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

11.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

12.

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

Pope, Alexander

13.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

Seneca

15.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

16.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

17.

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

18.

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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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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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

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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

25.

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

Boyes, John F.

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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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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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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

33.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

34.

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.

35.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

37.

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

Bible

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

40.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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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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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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