Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Bacon, Francis

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

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

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Maxim, Samurai

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

10.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

14.

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.

15.

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

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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

18.

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

Horace

19.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

22.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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.

24.

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.

25.

The best answer to anger is silence.

26.

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

27.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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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

30.

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

31.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

32.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

34.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

35.

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

Hull, Bobby

36.

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

40.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

41.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.