Motivational Quotes

Anger

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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.

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

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

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.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

14.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

15.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

17.

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.

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

George, David Lloyd

26.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

27.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

28.

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

Greg Evans

29.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

31.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

32.

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

33.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

34.

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.

35.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

37.

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

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

Quincey, Thomas De

39.

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: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

41.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

42.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

43.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

44.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

45.

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

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

Epictetus

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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

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Russell, Bertrand