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

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ruskin, John

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Greg Evans

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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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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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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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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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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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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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Seneca

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Plato

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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