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

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.

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

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Syrus, Publilius

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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.

10.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

11.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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

17.

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

Hull, Bobby

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Russell, Bertrand

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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.

25.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

26.

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

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

29.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

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

Seneca

31.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

Horace

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

34.

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

Maxim, Samurai

35.

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

36.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

37.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

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

Plato

39.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

40.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

41.

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.

42.

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

Greer, Germaine

43.

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

44.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb

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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.