Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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

Joubert, Joseph

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Proverb

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

10.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

11.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

12.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

13.

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

Bible

14.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

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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

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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.

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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.

21.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

25.

The best answer to anger is silence.

26.

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

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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.

Erica Eisdorfer

28.

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

Mckay, David O.

29.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

Pope, Alexander

31.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

32.

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

33.

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

Proverb, Malabar

34.

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

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Bible

37.

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

Webster, John

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

40.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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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]

Bible

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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