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

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Plato

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

Halifax, Edward F.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Greer, Germaine

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No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

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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

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Joubert, Joseph

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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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

Bible

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Boyes, John F.

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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich