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

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

Russell, Bertrand

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Renard, Jules

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

Edwards, Tryon

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

10.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

11.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

12.

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

Freud, Sigmund

13.

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 angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Bible

21.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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

24.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

30.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

35.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Bible

37.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

38.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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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.

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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.

41.

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

Secker, Thomas

42.

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

Mario Puzo

43.

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Bible

45.

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

Bible

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

Halifax, Edward F.

47.

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

Shenstone, William

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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

49.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

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

Francis De Sales, St.