Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Anger

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Pope, Alexander

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.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

11.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Edwards, Tryon

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

15.

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

16.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

17.

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

18.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

19.

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

20.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

21.

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

Joubert, Joseph

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Floyd, Pink

28.

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

29.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

30.

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

31.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

32.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

33.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

34.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

35.

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

Renard, Jules

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Bible

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

Hugo, Victor

40.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

41.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

43.

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

Angelou, Maya

44.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

45.

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

Dickinson, Emily

46.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Plato