Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb, Malabar

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

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

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Shakespeare, William

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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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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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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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

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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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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Wallenda, Karl

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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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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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.

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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]

Bible

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus