Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Proverb, Malabar

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

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

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

Greer, Germaine

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

10.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

11.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

12.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

13.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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.

17.

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

Horace

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

Proverb, Malabar

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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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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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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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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

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

Webster, John

30.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

31.

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

32.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

33.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

34.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

35.

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

Hugo, Victor

36.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

37.

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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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

40.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

41.

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

42.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Emily Dickinson

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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.

45.

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

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

47.

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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Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

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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.