Motivational Quotes

Anger

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

- Ellis, Havelock

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Bible

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proverb, Malabar

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bible

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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 makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

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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

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Shakespeare, William

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Proverb

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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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

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

Mckay, David O.

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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

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

Greg Evans

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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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

Plato

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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

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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

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Edwards, Tryon

44.

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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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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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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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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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

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo