Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

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

Shenstone, William

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Mizner, Wilson

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Bible

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

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

10.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

11.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

16.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

17.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

18.

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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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

20.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

21.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

22.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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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

25.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

26.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

27.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

30.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

Bacon, Francis

32.

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

33.

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

Bible

35.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

37.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

38.

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

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

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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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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

42.

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

Renard, Jules

43.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

44.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

45.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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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

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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

48.

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

Floyd, Pink

49.

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

Bible

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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle