Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

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

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

Erica Eisdorfer

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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

Renard, Jules

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ruskin, John

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Proverb

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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

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

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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.

Henry, M.

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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