Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Epictetus

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

Webster, John

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

10.

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

Shenstone, William

11.

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

12.

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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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

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

15.

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

16.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Greg Evans

18.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

19.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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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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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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

26.

The best answer to anger is silence.

27.

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

28.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

29.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

30.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

31.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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.

35.

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

Seneca

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

Sarnoff, David

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

39.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Freud, Sigmund

43.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

44.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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