Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Russell, Bertrand

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Ruskin, John

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

10.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

11.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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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

13.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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.

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Dickinson, Emily

21.

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

22.

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

George, David Lloyd

23.

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

24.

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

26.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

27.

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

28.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

29.

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

Emily Dickinson

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

34.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

35.

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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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

37.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

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

Proverb

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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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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.

41.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

42.

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

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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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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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

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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

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