Motivational Quotes

Anger

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Russell, Bertrand

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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

Greer, Germaine

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Proverb

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

10.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

11.

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

12.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

13.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

15.

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

Webster, John

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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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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.

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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

20.

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

21.

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

Buddha

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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

Renard, Jules

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

26.

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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 go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

33.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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

35.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

36.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

37.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

41.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

42.

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.

43.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

44.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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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

47.

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

Baldwin, James

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward