Motivational Quotes

Anger

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

- Selden, John

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Greer, Germaine

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

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

Hugo, Victor

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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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.

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

Mario Puzo

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

Francis De Sales, St.

14.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

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

Plato

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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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

24.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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

Horace

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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.

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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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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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