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

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

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Edwards, Tryon

10.

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

Greer, Germaine

11.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

12.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

15.

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.

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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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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.

Angelis, Barbara De

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

25.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

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

31.

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

Joubert, Joseph

32.

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

33.

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

Renard, Jules

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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

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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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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

37.

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

Thurber, James

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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

Maxim, Samurai

40.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

45.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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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.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul