Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Renard, Jules

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

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

Greer, Germaine

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

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.

10.

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

11.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

12.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

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

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

Joubert, Joseph

15.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

18.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

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

Plato

23.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

26.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

27.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

28.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

29.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

30.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

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

33.

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

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.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

36.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

37.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

38.

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

39.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Boyes, John F.

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