Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Anger

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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 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

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bible

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

Webster, John

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

Shakespeare, William

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

10.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

13.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

14.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

18.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

19.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

20.

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

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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.

23.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

24.

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

25.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

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.

27.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Edwards, Tryon

29.

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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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

31.

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

Proverb, Malabar

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

35.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

36.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

37.

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

Bible

38.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

39.

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

Freud, Sigmund

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

43.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

45.

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

Maxim, Samurai

46.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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.

49.

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

50.

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