Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

- Curtis, George William

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Seneca

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

Bible

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

The best answer to anger is silence.

11.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

12.

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

Bible

13.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

14.

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

15.

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

Hull, Bobby

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

19.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

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.

21.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

22.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

23.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

24.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

25.

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

Hugo, Victor

26.

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

Ellis, Havelock

27.

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.

28.

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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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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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

31.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

32.

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

Dickinson, Emily

33.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

34.

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.

35.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Lucan, F. L.

37.

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

38.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

39.

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

Wallenda, Karl

40.

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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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

42.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

43.

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

Mizner, Wilson

44.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

46.

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.

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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer