Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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

Bacon, Francis

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

13.

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

14.

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

Bible

15.

The best answer to anger is silence.

16.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

17.

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.

18.

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.

19.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

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

Plato

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

24.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

25.

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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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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

28.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

32.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

33.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

34.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

35.

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.

36.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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

38.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

39.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Proverb, Malabar

42.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

43.

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.

44.

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

Mckay, David O.

45.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

46.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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