Motivational Quotes

Anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Anger

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

10.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

11.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

12.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb

15.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

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

Ruskin, John

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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

19.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

20.

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

21.

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

Laurence J. Peter

22.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

23.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

24.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

31.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

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

33.

The best answer to anger is silence.

34.

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

Seneca

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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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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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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

38.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

39.

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

Lucan, F. L.

40.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Plato

43.

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

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

45.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

49.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

50.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.