Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

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

Horace

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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.

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

Seneca

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

Hull, Bobby

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.

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

Shenstone, William

10.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

11.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

14.

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

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

16.

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

Proverb, Malabar

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

19.

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

20.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

21.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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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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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.

27.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

28.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

29.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

30.

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

31.

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

Hugo, Victor

33.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

34.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

37.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Pope, Alexander

39.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

41.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ruskin, John

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bible

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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

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