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

Dickinson, Emily

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Epictetus

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Mario Puzo

12.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

14.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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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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

17.

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

Plato

18.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

20.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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

Francis De Sales, St.

22.

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

Bible

23.

The best answer to anger is silence.

24.

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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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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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

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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.

30.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Ellis, Havelock

33.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

36.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

38.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Webster, John

40.

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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Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

42.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

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

44.

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

Dyer, Wayne

45.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

46.

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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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

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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