Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Anger

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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

Proverb

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Bible

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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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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.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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 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

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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

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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

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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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

Akhenaton

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Plato

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

Proverb, Malabar

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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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

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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

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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 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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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 itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.