Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

- Harriet Lerner

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lucan, F. L.

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.

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

Horace

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

Secker, Thomas

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.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Proverb

10.

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

Mckay, David O.

11.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

12.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

13.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

14.

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

Renard, Jules

15.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

17.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

19.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

20.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

26.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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.

28.

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

Emily Dickinson

29.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

30.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

32.

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

Laurence J. Peter

34.

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

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

36.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

37.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

38.

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

Ruskin, John

39.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

40.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

42.

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

43.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

45.

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

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

Bible

48.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Pope, Alexander

50.

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