Motivational Quotes

Anger

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bacon, Francis

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Schuller, Robert H.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

10.

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

Proverb, Malabar

11.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

14.

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

15.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

16.

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

Bible

17.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

18.

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

19.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

20.

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

Emily Dickinson

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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

22.

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

23.

The best answer to anger is silence.

24.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

25.

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

26.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

27.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

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

32.

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

33.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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

Seneca

36.

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

Proverb

37.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

38.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Syrus, Publilius

40.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

41.

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

Proverb

42.

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

43.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

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

Bible

45.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

46.

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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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