Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ruskin, John

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Bible

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

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

Bible

11.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

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

Sarnoff, David

15.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

16.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

18.

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

Renard, Jules

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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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The best answer to anger is silence.

21.

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.

22.

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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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

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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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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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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

27.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

28.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

29.

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.

30.

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

Lucan, F. L.

31.

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

Bible

32.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

33.

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

34.

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

Emily Dickinson

35.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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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

40.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.