Motivational Quotes

Anger

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Floyd, Pink

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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]

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13.

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

14.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

15.

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

Mario Puzo

16.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

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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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

22.

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

Wallenda, Karl

23.

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

24.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

26.

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

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

Mckay, David O.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

32.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

33.

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

Hugo, Victor

34.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

35.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

36.

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

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37.

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.

38.

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

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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

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44.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

The best answer to anger is silence.

46.

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

Churchill, Winston

47.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

48.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

49.

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.

50.

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

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