Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Laurence J. Peter

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Edwards, Tryon

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

10.

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

Shenstone, William

11.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

12.

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

Bible

13.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

14.

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.

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

17.

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

Quarles, Francis

21.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Mizner, Wilson

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

25.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

27.

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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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

29.

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

30.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

31.

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

Lucan, F. L.

32.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

33.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

34.

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

35.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

42.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

43.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

45.

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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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.