Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Secker, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Webster, John

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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.

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

Bacon, Francis

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

10.

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

Floyd, Pink

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

13.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

19.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

20.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

21.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Bible

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

Plato

27.

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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

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

Maxim, Samurai

32.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

33.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Bible

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

37.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

38.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

40.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

41.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Emily Dickinson

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