Motivational Quotes

Anger

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

10.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

11.

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

12.

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

Greg Evans

13.

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

14.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

15.

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

Seneca

16.

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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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

18.

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

Ruskin, John

19.

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

20.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

21.

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

Thurber, James

22.

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

Seneca

23.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

24.

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

Greer, Germaine

25.

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

26.

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

Dyer, Wayne

27.

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

Proverb

28.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

29.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

Russell, Bertrand

33.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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.

36.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

38.

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

Horace

39.

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

40.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

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

Floyd, Pink

42.

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

43.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

44.

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

45.

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

Plato

46.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

48.

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.

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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

50.

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