Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Boyes, John F.

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

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

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Dyer, Wayne

11.

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

Renard, Jules

12.

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

Proverb, Malabar

13.

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

Hugo, Victor

14.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

18.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

25.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

28.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

29.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

30.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

31.

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.

32.

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.

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

Thurber, James

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Henry Ward Beecher

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.