Motivational Quotes

Anger

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Ruskin, John

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

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

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

11.

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

12.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

13.

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

Bible

14.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

15.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

16.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

18.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

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19.

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

Renard, Jules

20.

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

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21.

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]

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22.

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

Ellis, Havelock

23.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

28.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

29.

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

30.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

36.

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

37.

The best answer to anger is silence.

38.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

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

Seneca

40.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

41.

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

Bible

42.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

43.

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

44.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

45.

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

Sarnoff, David

46.

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