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 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.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Maxim, Samurai

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Bible

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

10.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Seneca

12.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Horace

15.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

16.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

17.

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

Webster, John

19.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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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.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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

25.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

26.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

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

Buddha

28.

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

29.

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

Joubert, Joseph

30.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

34.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

35.

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

Bible

36.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

37.

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

Epictetus

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I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

41.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

42.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

44.

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

Bacon, Francis

45.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bible

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

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