Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Bible

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

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.

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

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

17.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

Mckay, David O.

21.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

22.

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.

23.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

24.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

25.

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

26.

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

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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

28.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

29.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

30.

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

31.

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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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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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

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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

35.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Buddha

37.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

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.

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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

41.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

42.

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

Laurence J. Peter

43.

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

Russell, Bertrand

44.

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.

45.

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

Floyd, Pink

46.

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

Bible

47.

The best answer to anger is silence.

48.

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

49.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

50.

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