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

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

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

Buddha

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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

Francis De Sales, St.

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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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.

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

Plato

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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.

16.

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

17.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Webster, John

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

Proverb

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Pope, Alexander

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

24.

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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

Seneca

32.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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Curtis, George William

34.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

35.

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

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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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.

38.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

40.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

42.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

43.

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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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

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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

46.

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

Ellis, Havelock

47.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bible

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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

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus