Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Anger

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Plato

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

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Buddha

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

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

Boyes, John F.

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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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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

17.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

18.

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

Greer, Germaine

19.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

20.

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

21.

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

Mizner, Wilson

24.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

The best answer to anger is silence.

26.

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

27.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

29.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

30.

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

Lucan, F. L.

31.

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

32.

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

Floyd, Pink

33.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

34.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

35.

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

Ruskin, John

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

41.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Secker, Thomas

43.

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

Laurence J. Peter

44.

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

Bible

45.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

46.

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.

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

48.

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

Seneca

49.

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

Shakespeare, William