Motivational Quotes

Anger

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

- Webster, Daniel

Best Quotes about Anger

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Maxim, Samurai

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Fuller, Thomas

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

10.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

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

Hugo, Victor

16.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

17.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

18.

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

Plato

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

22.

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

23.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Renard, Jules

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

Shenstone, William

27.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

28.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

29.

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

Syrus, Publilius

30.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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

Freud, Sigmund

32.

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

33.

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

Buddha

34.

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

George, David Lloyd

35.

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

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Akhenaton

40.

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

Bible

41.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

42.

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.

43.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

44.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

45.

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

Bible

46.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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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

48.

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

Proverb

49.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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