Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

Bible

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

10.

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

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Renard, Jules

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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

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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

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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

17.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

18.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

19.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

20.

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

Dyer, Wayne

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Proverb, Malabar

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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

26.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

28.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Sarnoff, David

30.

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

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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.

34.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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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

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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

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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

38.

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

Bacon, Francis

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

40.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

41.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Hull, Bobby

45.

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

Proverb

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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