Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Secker, Thomas

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

13.

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

Renard, Jules

14.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

16.

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

Baldwin, James

17.

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

Mizner, Wilson

18.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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

Ellis, Havelock

22.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

23.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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 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

26.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

28.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

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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

32.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

33.

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

Freud, Sigmund

34.

The best answer to anger is silence.

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

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

38.

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

39.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

41.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

42.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

43.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

44.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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

49.

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

Bible

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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.