Motivational Quotes

Anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Anger

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Thurber, James

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Lucan, F. L.

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

15.

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

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

Seneca

17.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

The best answer to anger is silence.

22.

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

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

26.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

28.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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

30.

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

Ellis, Havelock

31.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

32.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

33.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Greer, Germaine

37.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

38.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

39.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

40.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas