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

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

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Horace

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

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

Akhenaton

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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.

11.

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

Emily Dickinson

12.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

13.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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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I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Lucan, F. L.

20.

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

Plato

21.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

23.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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

25.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

29.

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

Floyd, Pink

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

32.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Wallenda, Karl

34.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

35.

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

Bible

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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

37.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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.