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

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Floyd, Pink

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

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

Secker, Thomas

11.

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

Dyer, Wayne

12.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

13.

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

14.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

16.

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

Bible

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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

18.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

19.

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

Bacon, Francis

20.

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

21.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bible

24.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

25.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

26.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

28.

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

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

31.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

32.

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

Maxim, Samurai

34.

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

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

37.

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

Plato

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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

39.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

40.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

41.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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.