Motivational Quotes

Anger

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Anger

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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

Fuller, Thomas

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bible

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Bible

10.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Floyd, Pink

12.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

13.

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

Greg Evans

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

15.

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.

16.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

17.

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

Emily Dickinson

19.

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

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

22.

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

Renard, Jules

24.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

Sarnoff, David

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.

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

29.

The best answer to anger is silence.

30.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

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

Joubert, Joseph

32.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Russell, Bertrand

34.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

35.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

36.

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

Secker, Thomas

38.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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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!