Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Shakespeare, William

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

10.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

11.

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

12.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

Epictetus

14.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

15.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

17.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

18.

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

19.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

20.

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.

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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

24.

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

25.

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

Lucan, F. L.

26.

The best answer to anger is silence.

27.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

28.

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

Edwards, Tryon

29.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

30.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

31.

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

32.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

33.

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

34.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

35.

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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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.

37.

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

George, David Lloyd

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

42.

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

43.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

45.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

48.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

49.

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

50.

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