Motivational Quotes

Anger

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Shenstone, William

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.

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

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

11.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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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

13.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

14.

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

15.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

16.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

18.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

20.

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

Proverb, Malabar

21.

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

Horace

22.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

23.

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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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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.

26.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

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

Baldwin, James

28.

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

Angelou, Maya

29.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

30.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

31.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

32.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

33.

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

34.

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

Mckay, David O.

35.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

36.

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

Sarnoff, David

37.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

41.

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

Joubert, Joseph

42.

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

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Dickinson, Emily

45.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

47.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

48.

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

49.

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

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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