Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Edwards, Tryon

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

10.

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

11.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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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

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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Buddha

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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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.

26.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Proverb

34.

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

Proverb

35.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Proverb

42.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

43.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

44.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

45.

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

Edwards, Tryon

46.

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.

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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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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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose