Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Lucan, F. L.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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

Fuller, Thomas

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Webster, John

13.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

17.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

22.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

23.

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

Proverb, Malabar

24.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

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

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

Bible

30.

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

31.

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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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

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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

34.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

35.

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

Bible

36.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

37.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

38.

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.

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Bible

41.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

42.

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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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

44.

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

45.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Bacon, Francis

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