Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Buddha

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Bible

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Bible

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

10.

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

Syrus, Publilius

11.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

12.

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

Renard, Jules

13.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

14.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

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

Greg Evans

17.

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

Emily Dickinson

18.

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

Ellis, Havelock

19.

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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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Akhenaton

23.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Bible

25.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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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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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

28.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

32.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

33.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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.

35.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

39.

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

Secker, Thomas

40.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

41.

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.

Bach, George R.

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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

44.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

46.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

48.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

49.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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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.