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

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

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

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb

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

10.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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.

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

14.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bible

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

21.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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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

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

Emily Dickinson

24.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

25.

The best answer to anger is silence.

26.

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

27.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

30.

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

Wallenda, Karl

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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

32.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

33.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

34.

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

Secker, Thomas

35.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

36.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

37.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

38.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

43.

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.

44.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

45.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Churchill, Winston