Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Edwards, Tryon

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.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Aurelius, Marcus

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Quarles, Francis

15.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

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

17.

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

Secker, Thomas

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

24.

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

25.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

The best answer to anger is silence.

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

33.

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

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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

36.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Horace

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

40.

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

Proverb

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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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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

45.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

46.

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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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