Motivational Quotes

Anger

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

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

Horace

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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

Bible

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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

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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

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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

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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The best answer to anger is silence.

28.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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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.

30.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

31.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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

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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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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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.

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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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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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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Bible

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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