Motivational Quotes

Anger

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Bible

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Buddha

11.

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

Sarnoff, David

12.

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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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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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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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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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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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!

Sweeting, George

18.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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.

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

Seneca

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

25.

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

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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

30.

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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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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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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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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dickinson, Emily

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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Pope, Alexander

41.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Proverb, Malabar

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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Russell, Bertrand