Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Dyer, Wayne

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Bacon, Francis

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

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Akhenaton

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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

15.

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

Floyd, Pink

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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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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

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

20.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

21.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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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

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

28.

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

29.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

31.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

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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The best answer to anger is silence.

34.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

35.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bible

38.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

39.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

40.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

41.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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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

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

Horace

44.

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

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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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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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