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

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

Renard, Jules

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

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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

Plato

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

Landor, Walter Savage

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Emily Dickinson

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Bible

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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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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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, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Fuller, Thomas

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.