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

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

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

Secker, Thomas

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Greg Evans

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

10.

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

11.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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, 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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When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

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

Bacon, Francis

18.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

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

Laurence J. Peter

20.

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

Dickinson, Emily

21.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

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

Shenstone, William

25.

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

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

27.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

28.

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

Pope, Alexander

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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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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 ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

35.

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

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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

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

40.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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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

44.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

46.

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

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

Proverb, Malabar

49.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

50.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.