Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Quincey, Thomas De

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Lucan, F. L.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Bible

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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

14.

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

Seneca

15.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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.

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

Mckay, David O.

18.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

19.

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

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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]

Bible

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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 cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Plato

27.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

29.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

30.

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.

31.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Horace

34.

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

35.

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

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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

37.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

38.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

40.

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

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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.

42.

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

Shenstone, William

43.

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

Mario Puzo

44.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

47.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

48.

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

Bible

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.