Motivational Quotes

Anger

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb

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

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

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

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Maxim, Samurai

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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

11.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

12.

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.

13.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

15.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

19.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

20.

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

Secker, Thomas

21.

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

Mario Puzo

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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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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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

25.

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

26.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

28.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

29.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

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

Ellis, Havelock

41.

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

Horace

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

44.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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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 itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Bible

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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