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

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Bible

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

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

Wallenda, Karl

10.

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

Proverb

11.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

12.

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

Syrus, Publilius

13.

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

Shenstone, William

14.

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

15.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

Ruskin, John

18.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

23.

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

Emily Dickinson

24.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

25.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

26.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

27.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

29.

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

Mizner, Wilson

30.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

31.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

32.

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

Plato

33.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

35.

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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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

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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

38.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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