Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

11.

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

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

Webster, John

13.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

15.

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

Bible

17.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

18.

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]

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

Bible

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

Henry Ward Beecher

22.

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

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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

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

Boyes, John F.

25.

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

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

Lucan, F. L.

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

30.

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

Secker, Thomas

31.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

33.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

34.

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

Mario Puzo

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Horace

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Mckay, David O.

41.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

47.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

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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