Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mario Puzo

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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

Webster, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Laurence J. Peter

10.

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

11.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

12.

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

13.

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

Bible

14.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

15.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

Proverb, Malabar

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

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

Bible

22.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

23.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

24.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

25.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

26.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

27.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

30.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

35.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

36.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

38.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

40.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

41.

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

Mizner, Wilson

42.

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

43.

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

Ellis, Havelock

44.

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

Greer, Germaine

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.