Motivational Quotes

Anger

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Bible

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb

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

Seneca

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

10.

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

Hull, Bobby

11.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

12.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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 itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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

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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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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

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

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

20.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

21.

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

Mario Puzo

22.

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

23.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

24.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

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

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28.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

29.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

30.

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

31.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

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

George, David Lloyd

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

39.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

42.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

43.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

44.

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

45.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

46.

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

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