Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Francis De Sales, St.

10.

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

George, David Lloyd

11.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

13.

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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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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Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The best answer to anger is silence.

19.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb

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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

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

Emily Dickinson

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Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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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.

42.

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

44.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner