Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Anger

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bible

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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 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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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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

Proverb

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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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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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Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

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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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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.

32.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

33.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

34.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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.

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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.

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

Proverb

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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emily Dickinson

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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De