Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Sarnoff, David

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Shenstone, William

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

11.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

12.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Boyes, John F.

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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

17.

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

Ruskin, John

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

20.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

21.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

22.

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

Russell, Bertrand

25.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Mizner, Wilson

28.

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Renard, Jules

30.

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

Horace

31.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

32.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

33.

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

34.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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

36.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

38.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

39.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

40.

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

George, David Lloyd

41.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

42.

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.

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

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

Akhenaton

45.

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

Buddha

46.

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

47.

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

Secker, Thomas

48.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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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