Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb

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

Epictetus

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Plato

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Bible

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

Floyd, Pink

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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.

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

Greg Evans

11.

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.

12.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

13.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

14.

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

Ellis, Havelock

15.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

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

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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.

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

Shenstone, William

21.

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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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

23.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

26.

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

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.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

29.

The best answer to anger is silence.

30.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

31.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

32.

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

George, David Lloyd

33.

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

34.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

35.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

36.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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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

38.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

39.

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

40.

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

Bacon, Francis

41.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

45.

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

Syrus, Publilius

46.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar