Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

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.

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

Mario Puzo

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

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

10.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

11.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

12.

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

Shenstone, William

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

Horace

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The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

15.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

16.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

17.

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

Plato

18.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

19.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

20.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

21.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

22.

The best answer to anger is silence.

23.

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

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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

25.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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

Bible

30.

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

Baldwin, James

31.

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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

34.

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

35.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

36.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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