Motivational Quotes

Anger

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Epictetus

2.

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

Syrus, Publilius

3.

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

4.

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

Mizner, Wilson

5.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

6.

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

Quarles, Francis

7.

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

Joubert, Joseph

8.

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

9.

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

Greer, Germaine

10.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

12.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

13.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

17.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

21.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

22.

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

23.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

24.

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

Ruskin, John

25.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

26.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

27.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

28.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

29.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

30.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

33.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

34.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

35.

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

36.

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

Boyes, John F.

37.

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

Buddha

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

39.

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

40.

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

Bible

41.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

43.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

44.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

45.

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

46.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

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.

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

Floyd, Pink

49.

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.

50.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

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