Motivational Quotes

Anger

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Anger

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Bible

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

12.

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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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

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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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Emily Dickinson

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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

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

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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

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

21.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Bible

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

Proverb

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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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

29.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

30.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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

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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Dyer, Wayne

35.

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

Lucan, F. L.

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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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

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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

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

Boyes, John F.

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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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

George, David Lloyd

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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Seneca

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

46.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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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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