Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Secker, Thomas

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

10.

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

Lucan, F. L.

11.

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

12.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

13.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

14.

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

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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

18.

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

Freud, Sigmund

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

21.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bible

23.

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.

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

Edwards, Tryon

25.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

26.

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

27.

The best answer to anger is silence.

28.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

29.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

30.

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

Shenstone, William

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

37.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

38.

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

39.

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

Epictetus

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Thurber, James

44.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

45.

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