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

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

Wallenda, Karl

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Webster, John

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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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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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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

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

Seneca

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

30.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Greer, Germaine

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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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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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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 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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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

Proverb

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Akhenaton

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

Mizner, Wilson

46.

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

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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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The best answer to anger is silence.

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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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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle