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

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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.

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

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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

Shakespeare, William

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Shenstone, William

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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

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

Epictetus

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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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.

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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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

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Quarles, Francis

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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

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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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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