Motivational Quotes

Anger

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Shenstone, William

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

10.

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

Epictetus

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

Mckay, David O.

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Seneca

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The best answer to anger is silence.

15.

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.

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

Bible

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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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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

21.

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

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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

Mizner, Wilson

25.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

28.

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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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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

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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Henry Ward Beecher

33.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

34.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

35.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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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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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

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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

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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