Motivational Quotes

Anger

No person is important enough to make me angry.

- Castaneda, Carlos

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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.

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

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

Bible

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

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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

Seneca

10.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

12.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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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

20.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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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

28.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

29.

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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

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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

32.

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Emily Dickinson

34.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

38.

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

39.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

40.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bible

46.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Mario Puzo

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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.

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

Schuller, Robert H.