Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

10.

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

Bible

11.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

12.

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

13.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

14.

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

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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

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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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 will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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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.

21.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

Dyer, Wayne

24.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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.

26.

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

Proverb, Malabar

27.

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

Buddha

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

30.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

31.

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

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

Seneca

33.

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

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Baldwin, James

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

Joubert, Joseph

39.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

40.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.