Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Anger

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Shenstone, William

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

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

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

Angelis, Barbara De

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

13.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

14.

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

Thurber, James

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

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

Horace

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

21.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

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 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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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

25.

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

26.

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

Russell, Bertrand

27.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

29.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

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.

31.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

32.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

33.

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

34.

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

Renard, Jules

35.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

36.

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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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

38.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

39.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

40.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

41.

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

42.

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

Floyd, Pink

43.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

44.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

46.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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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

48.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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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