Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Magnus, Saint Albertus

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Secker, Thomas

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

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Ruskin, John

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

15.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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

18.

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

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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

20.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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

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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 anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

24.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

25.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

26.

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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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

28.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

31.

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

Plato

32.

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

Joubert, Joseph

33.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

34.

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.

35.

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

Bible

36.

The best answer to anger is silence.

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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

39.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

Maxim, Samurai

41.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

42.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Buddha

44.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

45.

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

Proverb

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

Hull, Bobby

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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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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.