Motivational Quotes

Anger

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Anger

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

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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

Dyer, Wayne

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

10.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

14.

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

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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Angelou, Maya

18.

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

19.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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

Bible

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

Emily Dickinson

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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Akhenaton

28.

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

Proverb, Malabar

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Proverb

34.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

35.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

37.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

38.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.