Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Quincey, Thomas De

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Mizner, Wilson

13.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

15.

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

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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

Plato

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Seneca

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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

Freud, Sigmund

24.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

25.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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.

28.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

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

Proverb, Malabar

30.

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

31.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Mario Puzo

37.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

38.

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

41.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

43.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

46.

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

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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 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

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

Fuller, Thomas