Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

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.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Greer, Germaine

11.

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

12.

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

Thurber, James

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

14.

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

15.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

17.

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

Shenstone, William

18.

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

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

20.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

23.

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

Mario Puzo

24.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

25.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

26.

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

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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

28.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

30.

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

Sarnoff, David

31.

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

Russell, Bertrand

32.

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

Joubert, Joseph

33.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

36.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

37.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

39.

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

Floyd, Pink

40.

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

Webster, John

41.

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

Proverb

42.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

46.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

48.

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

49.

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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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De