Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Anger

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Plato

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

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Boyes, John F.

10.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

11.

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.

12.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

14.

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

Mario Puzo

15.

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

Greer, Germaine

16.

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

Sarnoff, David

18.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

20.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

22.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Halifax, Edward F.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

27.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

30.

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

Pope, Alexander

31.

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

32.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

33.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

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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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.

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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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

40.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

41.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

42.

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

Webster, John

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

Bible

44.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.