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

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wallenda, Karl

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

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

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.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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.

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

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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.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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

Seneca

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

Syrus, Publilius

20.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

21.

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

Epictetus

23.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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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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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.

27.

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

Floyd, Pink

28.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

29.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

32.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

33.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

35.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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

40.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Plato

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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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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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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.