Motivational Quotes

Anger

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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 used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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

Bible

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

10.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

13.

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

14.

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

Secker, Thomas

15.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

16.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

17.

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

18.

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

Seneca

19.

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

Pope, Alexander

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Renard, Jules

24.

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

25.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

Akhenaton

27.

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

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Proverb, Malabar

29.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

30.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

32.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

33.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

35.

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

Edwards, Tryon

36.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

37.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

38.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

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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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

41.

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

42.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Epictetus

46.

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

Bible

47.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

48.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

49.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott