Motivational Quotes

Anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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

Proverb

2.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

3.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

4.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

5.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

6.

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

Fuller, Thomas

7.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

8.

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.

9.

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

10.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

11.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

12.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

13.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

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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15.

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.

16.

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

Dyer, Wayne

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

20.

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.

21.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

26.

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

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27.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

28.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

29.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

30.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

31.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

32.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

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33.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

34.

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

35.

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

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36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

Edwards, Tryon

39.

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

Russell, Bertrand

40.

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

41.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

42.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

43.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

Dickinson, Emily

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

48.

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

Mckay, David O.

49.

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

50.

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

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