Motivational Quotes

Anger

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

Webster, John

11.

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

Russell, Bertrand

12.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

13.

The best answer to anger is silence.

14.

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

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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

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

Bible

18.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

20.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

21.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

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

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

Thurber, James

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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

25.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

28.

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

Hull, Bobby

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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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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

31.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

32.

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

Mizner, Wilson

33.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

35.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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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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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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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

42.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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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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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bible

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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

47.

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Hugo, Victor

49.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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