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

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Francis De Sales, St.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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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

11.

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

12.

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

Thurber, James

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

Proverb, Malabar

14.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

15.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

18.

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

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

21.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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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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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

24.

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

25.

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

Emily Dickinson

26.

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

Syrus, Publilius

27.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

28.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

29.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

30.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

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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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

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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

34.

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

Mckay, David O.

35.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Ruskin, John

42.

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

Maxim, Samurai

43.

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

Seneca

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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

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

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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

Freud, Sigmund

49.

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

Floyd, Pink

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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.