Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

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

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Bible

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

Bible

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

10.

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

Dickinson, Emily

11.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

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

13.

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

Horace

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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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.

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

24.

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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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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

Floyd, Pink

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

31.

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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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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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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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 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

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Francis De Sales, St.

39.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

40.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

41.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

42.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Epictetus