Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Thurber, James

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Horace

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

Laurence J. Peter

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

14.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

15.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

17.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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

Secker, Thomas

24.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

25.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

26.

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.

27.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

28.

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

Mario Puzo

29.

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

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Maxim, Samurai

37.

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

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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

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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

42.

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

Joubert, Joseph

43.

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

Shenstone, William

44.

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

Floyd, Pink

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

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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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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian