Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Shenstone, William

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

Thurber, James

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

11.

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

12.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Angelou, Maya

16.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

17.

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

Floyd, Pink

18.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

19.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

20.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

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.

24.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

25.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

26.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

27.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

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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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

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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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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dyer, Wayne

33.

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

34.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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.

37.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

38.

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

George, David Lloyd

39.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Buddha

41.

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

Wallenda, Karl

42.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

43.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

44.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Mizner, Wilson

49.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.