Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Floyd, Pink

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

10.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

11.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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

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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

18.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

20.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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.

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

Proverb

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Secker, Thomas

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

29.

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

30.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Hugo, Victor

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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.

34.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Webster, John

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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

45.

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.

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

Thurber, James

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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.

48.

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.

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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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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.