Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

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.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Bible

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

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

10.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Horace

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

14.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

15.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

16.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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

Bible

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

19.

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

Seneca

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

Renard, Jules

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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

22.

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

Proverb

23.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

26.

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.

27.

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

Baldwin, James

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

40.

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

Plato

41.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

42.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

43.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

44.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

45.

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

Akhenaton

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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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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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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, 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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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