Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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

Epictetus

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

Greg Evans

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

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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]

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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

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

15.

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

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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.

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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.

18.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

19.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

20.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

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21.

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

Wallenda, Karl

22.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

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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25.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Hugo, Victor

29.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

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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

32.

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

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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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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

35.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

36.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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

39.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

41.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

Thurber, James

47.

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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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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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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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese