Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Quincey, Thomas De

Best Quotes about Anger

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

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

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

Bible

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Russell, Bertrand

11.

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

Shenstone, William

12.

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.

13.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

17.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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

19.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Seneca

23.

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

24.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

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

Maxim, Samurai

29.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

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

33.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

35.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

36.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

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.

38.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

The best answer to anger is silence.

41.

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

Greg Evans

42.

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

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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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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

45.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

47.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

48.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

49.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

50.

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