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

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Maxim, Samurai

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

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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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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11.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Horace

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

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19.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

20.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

21.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

Ruskin, John

23.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

24.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

27.

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

28.

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Bacon, Francis

30.

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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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

40.

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

41.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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46.

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 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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Mckay, David O.

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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]

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