Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Anger

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schuller, Robert H.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Proverb

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

10.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

12.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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

Proverb

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

24.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

25.

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

Dickinson, Emily

26.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

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

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

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

Bible

34.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

35.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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

38.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

40.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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.