Motivational Quotes

Anger

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Anger

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Horace

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Renard, Jules

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

10.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

11.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

12.

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.

13.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

14.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lucan, F. L.

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

17.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Quarles, Francis

20.

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

Greg Evans

21.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

22.

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

Ruskin, John

23.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

24.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

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

Freud, Sigmund

26.

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

27.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

28.

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

Greer, Germaine

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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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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

31.

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

Maxim, Samurai

32.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

33.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

34.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

Dyer, Wayne

37.

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

38.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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

Laurence J. Peter

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

44.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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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

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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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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

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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

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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

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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