Motivational Quotes

Anger

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Anger

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Renard, Jules

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

Seneca

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Edwards, Tryon

10.

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

Pope, Alexander

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

12.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

13.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

Bible

15.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

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

Dickinson, Emily

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

20.

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.

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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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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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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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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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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

26.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

27.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

29.

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

Lucan, F. L.

30.

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

Proverb

31.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

32.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

33.

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

Shenstone, William

34.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Anger cannot be dishonest.