Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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.

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

Akhenaton

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Shenstone, William

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

10.

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

Horace

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The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

12.

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

Pope, Alexander

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Shakespeare, William

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Bible

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

Laurence J. Peter

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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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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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Wallenda, Karl

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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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

Secker, Thomas

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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

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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.

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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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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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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.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Proverb, Malabar

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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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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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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Freud, Sigmund

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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold