Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

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

Renard, Jules

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.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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

Bible

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

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

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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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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Dickinson, Emily

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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

George, David Lloyd

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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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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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Baldwin, James

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Bible

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

43.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Pope, Alexander

46.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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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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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