Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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

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

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Bible

11.

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

Edwards, Tryon

12.

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

Angelou, Maya

13.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

14.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

17.

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

Hugo, Victor

18.

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

Proverb, Malabar

19.

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

Seneca

20.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

21.

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

Webster, John

22.

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

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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

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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

25.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

26.

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

27.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

28.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

29.

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.

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Secker, Thomas

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

37.

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

Buddha

38.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

39.

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

40.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

41.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

42.

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

43.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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.

45.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

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

47.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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.

49.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Aurelius, Marcus