Motivational Quotes

Anger

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Anger

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bierce, Ambrose

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Russell, Bertrand

12.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

14.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

15.

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

Maxim, Samurai

17.

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

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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

19.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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

22.

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.

23.

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

Horace

24.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

25.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

26.

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

Proverb, Malabar

27.

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

Dickinson, Emily

28.

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

Bible

29.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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

32.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

39.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

40.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

41.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

42.

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

Renard, Jules

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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

44.

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.

45.

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

Dyer, Wayne

46.

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

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

49.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.