Motivational Quotes

Anger

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

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

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

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.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Webster, John

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

10.

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

11.

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

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

13.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

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

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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.

20.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

21.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

26.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

27.

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

Epictetus

28.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

31.

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

32.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

33.

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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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