Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

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

Greer, Germaine

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Floyd, Pink

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Quarles, Francis

10.

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

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

15.

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

Shenstone, William

16.

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

Maxim, Samurai

17.

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

18.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

19.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

20.

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

Renard, Jules

21.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

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

27.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

30.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

31.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

32.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

33.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

34.

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

Hugo, Victor

35.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

36.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Horace

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

Baldwin, James

39.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

40.

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

Emily Dickinson

41.

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

Webster, John

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

45.

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

George, David Lloyd

46.

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.

47.

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

Proverb, Malabar

48.

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.

49.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca