Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is a brief lunacy.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Anger

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

10.

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

Ruskin, John

11.

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

12.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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.

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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

17.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Shenstone, William

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

28.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

29.

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

Thurber, James

30.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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

Bible

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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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

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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

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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

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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.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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.

43.

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.