Motivational Quotes

Anger

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Anger

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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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Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Emily Dickinson

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Edwards, Tryon

21.

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

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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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

Buddha

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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.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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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

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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

32.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Horace

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

41.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Gracian, Baltasar