Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb

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

Baldwin, James

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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

Webster, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

10.

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

Sarnoff, David

11.

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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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

14.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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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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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

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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

18.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

19.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

21.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

22.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

23.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

24.

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.

25.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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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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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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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bible

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

33.

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

34.

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

35.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Plato

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

Horace

38.

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

45.

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

Mizner, Wilson

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

48.

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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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

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre