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

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Shenstone, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

10.

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

11.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Secker, Thomas

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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bible

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

Bible

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Plato

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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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

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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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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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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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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Henry Ward Beecher

29.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

31.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Bible

41.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward