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

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Angelis, Barbara De

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

10.

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

Wallenda, Karl

11.

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

Pope, Alexander

12.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

13.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

14.

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

Horace

15.

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

18.

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.

19.

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

Lucan, F. L.

20.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

26.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

27.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

28.

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.

29.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

30.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

31.

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

Edwards, Tryon

32.

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

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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

34.

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

Emily Dickinson

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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.

36.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

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

38.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Buddha

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