Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Bible

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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

10.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

13.

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

Boyes, John F.

14.

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

15.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

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

19.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

20.

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

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

Thurber, James

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

26.

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

Renard, Jules

27.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

30.

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

31.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

36.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

42.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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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

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.