Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Shenstone, William

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Buddha

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

Dyer, Wayne

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.

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.

10.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

11.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

12.

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

13.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

14.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

15.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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

Bible

17.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

22.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bible

25.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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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

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The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

33.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

34.

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

Wallenda, Karl

35.

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

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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

37.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Bacon, Francis

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

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

41.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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

43.

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.

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

Russell, Bertrand

45.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

46.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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

Ruskin, John