Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Joubert, Joseph

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Mckay, David O.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Renard, Jules

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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

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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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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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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

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

Bible

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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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

Floyd, Pink

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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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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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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.

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Greg Evans

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

Bible

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Churchill, Winston