Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Landor, Walter Savage

Best Quotes about Anger

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Quincey, Thomas De

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Greer, Germaine

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.

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

12.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

13.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

14.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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.

16.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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

Seneca

19.

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

20.

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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

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

23.

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

Quarles, Francis

24.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

25.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

26.

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.

27.

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.

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

30.

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: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

32.

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

Emily Dickinson

33.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

35.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

36.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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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

38.

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

Floyd, Pink

39.

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

Dickinson, Emily

40.

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

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

Webster, John

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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

43.

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

Bible

44.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

45.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

46.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

47.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

48.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.