Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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

12.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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.

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Angelou, Maya

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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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

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

Epictetus

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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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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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Proverb

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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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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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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

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Greg Evans

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Dyer, Wayne