Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Magnus, Saint Albertus

Best Quotes about Anger

1.

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]

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2.

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

3.

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

Renard, Jules

4.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

5.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

6.

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

Seneca

7.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

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8.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Russell, Bertrand

16.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

17.

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

18.

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

Freud, Sigmund

19.

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

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20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

28.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

30.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

32.

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

Shakespeare, William

33.

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

Sarnoff, David

34.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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.

36.

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

Fuller, Thomas

37.

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

Proverb, Malabar

38.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

Maxim, Samurai

40.

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

Baldwin, James

41.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

42.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

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43.

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

Buddha

44.

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

Dickinson, Emily

45.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

46.

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

Edwards, Tryon

47.

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

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48.

The best answer to anger is silence.

49.

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

50.

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