Motivational Quotes

Anger

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

Proverb

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.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

10.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

11.

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

Proverb, Malabar

12.

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

Renard, Jules

13.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

14.

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

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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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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

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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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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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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

30.

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

31.

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Seneca

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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Mizner, Wilson

38.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

39.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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

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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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Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

45.

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

46.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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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

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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