Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Bible

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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

Russell, Bertrand

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

10.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

11.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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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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

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Edwards, Tryon

17.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

18.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

19.

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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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

23.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

24.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Dyer, Wayne

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

31.

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

Bible

32.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

33.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

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

35.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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

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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

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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

40.

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

41.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

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

Ruskin, John

44.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

45.

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.

46.

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

Proverb

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos