Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Bacon, Francis

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Mizner, Wilson

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.

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

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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

Bible

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

Joubert, Joseph

12.

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

Ruskin, John

13.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Secker, Thomas

15.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

16.

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

17.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

20.

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

Akhenaton

21.

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

22.

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

Bible

23.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

24.

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

25.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

31.

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.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Lucan, F. L.

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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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

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Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

37.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

39.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

40.

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

Renard, Jules

41.

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.

42.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

44.

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

Emily Dickinson

45.

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