Motivational Quotes

Anger

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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Best Quotes about Anger

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

Akhenaton

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

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

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Baldwin, James

15.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

16.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

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

18.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

19.

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

Bible

20.

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.

21.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

22.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

23.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Webster, John

26.

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

Proverb

27.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

28.

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

29.

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

Bible

30.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

31.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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

Laurence J. Peter

33.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

34.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

35.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

36.

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

Maxim, Samurai

37.

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

Bible

38.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

39.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

40.

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.

41.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

42.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

43.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

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

45.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

46.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

47.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

48.

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

49.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

50.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh