Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

10.

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

11.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

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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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

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.

17.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

18.

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

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.

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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Greer, Germaine

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

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

Proverb

27.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

30.

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

Angelou, Maya

31.

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

32.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

33.

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

Shenstone, William

34.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

40.

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

41.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

42.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

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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Anger cannot be dishonest.