Motivational Quotes

Anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Boyes, John F.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Harris, Sidney J.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

10.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

11.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Seneca

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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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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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

Wallenda, Karl

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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

25.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

28.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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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

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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.

44.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

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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