Motivational Quotes

Anger

The best answer to anger is silence.

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Best Quotes about Anger

1.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

6.

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

Ruskin, John

7.

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

Bible

8.

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.

9.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

12.

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]

Bible

13.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

14.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

17.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Mizner, Wilson

19.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

20.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

21.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

22.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

23.

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

Seneca

24.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

25.

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

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

28.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

30.

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

Shenstone, William

31.

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

Emily Dickinson

32.

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

Mario Puzo

33.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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

Freud, Sigmund

36.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

37.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

38.

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

39.

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

Secker, Thomas

40.

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

Bacon, Francis

41.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

42.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

43.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

44.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

45.

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

46.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb