Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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.

10.

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

Renard, Jules

11.

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

12.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

13.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

14.

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

Pope, Alexander

15.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

16.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

17.

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.

18.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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.

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

Boyes, John F.

21.

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.

22.

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

Secker, Thomas

23.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

24.

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

25.

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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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

28.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

29.

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

Emily Dickinson

30.

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

31.

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

32.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

33.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

34.

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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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

37.

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

I Ching

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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

39.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

41.

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

Edwards, Tryon

42.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

44.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

47.

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

Wallenda, Karl

48.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

49.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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