Motivational Quotes

Anger

Depression is rage spread thin.

- Tillich, Paul

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Francis De Sales, St.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

10.

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

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

Greer, Germaine

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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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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

24.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

27.

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.

28.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Shenstone, William

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

Bible

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

37.

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

Laurence J. Peter

38.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

39.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

42.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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

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

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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No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.