Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Emily Dickinson

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Russell, Bertrand

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

10.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

11.

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

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

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

14.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

18.

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

Greg Evans

19.

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

Quarles, Francis

20.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

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

22.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

23.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

Proverb, Malabar

27.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

29.

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

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

31.

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

32.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

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

Proverb

38.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

39.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

40.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

41.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

43.

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

Lucan, F. L.

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.