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 like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

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.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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.

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

Freud, Sigmund

10.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

12.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

16.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Proverb

18.

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

Thurber, James

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

Baldwin, James

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

Emily Dickinson

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Joubert, Joseph

28.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

29.

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

30.

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

Ruskin, John

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Henry Ward Beecher

34.

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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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Mizner, Wilson

46.

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

47.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The best answer to anger is silence.