Motivational Quotes

Anger

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

The best answer to anger is silence.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Bible

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

10.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

13.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

14.

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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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

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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

17.

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

18.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

19.

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

20.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

21.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Hugo, Victor

28.

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.

29.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Horace

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

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

Boyes, John F.

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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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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.

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De