Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

10.

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

11.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

12.

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

Proverb, Malabar

14.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

16.

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

Edwards, Tryon

17.

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

Laurence J. Peter

18.

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

Bible

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

Lucan, F. L.

20.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

21.

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

22.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

25.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Angelis, Barbara De

27.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

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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

32.

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

33.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

35.

The best answer to anger is silence.

36.

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

Hull, Bobby

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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

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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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.

41.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

42.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

44.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

46.

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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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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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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