Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Bible

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.

10.

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

Edwards, Tryon

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

13.

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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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

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wallenda, Karl

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

21.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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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

23.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

29.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

30.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

31.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

Shenstone, William

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

Hugo, Victor

35.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

36.

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

Bible

37.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

38.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

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

Proverb, Malabar

40.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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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

42.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

43.

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

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

45.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

46.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

47.

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

48.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

49.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Renard, Jules