Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

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

Renard, Jules

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

Bible

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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.

10.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

11.

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

Webster, John

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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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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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.

18.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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 itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

28.

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

29.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

30.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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 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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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

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

41.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

43.

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

George, David Lloyd

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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

47.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis