Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Cherie Carter-Scott

Best Quotes about Anger

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Secker, Thomas

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

10.

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

11.

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

Shenstone, William

12.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

13.

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

Bible

14.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

15.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

16.

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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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

18.

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

Mario Puzo

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dyer, Wayne

24.

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

George, David Lloyd

25.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

26.

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

27.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

31.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

32.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

38.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

40.

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.

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

45.

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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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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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

48.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.