Motivational Quotes

Anger

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Anger

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

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Dickinson, Emily

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

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

Plato

13.

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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

15.

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

16.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

17.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

18.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

22.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

25.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

26.

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

Freud, Sigmund

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

30.

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

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

Baldwin, James

36.

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

Emily Dickinson

37.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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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

40.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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.

44.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

45.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb

47.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

50.

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

Shakespeare, William