Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Anger

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

It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

10.

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

Freud, Sigmund

11.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

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

13.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

14.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

16.

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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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

18.

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

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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.

25.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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.

27.

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

28.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

29.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

30.

The best answer to anger is silence.

31.

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

Angelou, Maya

32.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

33.

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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Hugo, Victor

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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Russell, Bertrand

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

39.

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

Floyd, Pink

40.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

41.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

42.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

43.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

44.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

Thurber, James

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel