Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Ruskin, John

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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.

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

George, David Lloyd

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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

Bible

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

19.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Renard, Jules

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Fuller, Thomas

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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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

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Buddha

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

49.

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

Fuller, Thomas