Motivational Quotes

Anger

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

- I Ching

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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.

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

10.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

11.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

15.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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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

18.

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

Lucan, F. L.

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Webster, John

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

23.

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

27.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

28.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Shenstone, William

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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.

31.

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

Seneca

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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

33.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

34.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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

Akhenaton

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Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Sarnoff, David

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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.

43.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

44.

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

45.

The best answer to anger is silence.

46.

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 anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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

Boyes, John F.

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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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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.