Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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

Bierce, Ambrose

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Ruskin, John

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

10.

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

11.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Horace

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

Lucan, F. L.

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

18.

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

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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

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

Bible

21.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.

24.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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

Bible

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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

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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

28.

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

29.

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

Buddha

30.

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

31.

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

Plato

32.

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

Mizner, Wilson

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

36.

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.

37.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

40.

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.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

43.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

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

Joubert, Joseph

45.

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.

46.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Shenstone, William

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Maxim, Samurai