Motivational Quotes

Anger

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

- White, Elwyn Brooks

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Webster, John

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Bible

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Russell, Bertrand

17.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Plato

20.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

21.

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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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

24.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

25.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

30.

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

31.

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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

33.

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

Greg Evans

34.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

35.

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

Bible

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Dickinson, Emily

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

40.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

42.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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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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

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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.

50.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen