Motivational Quotes

Anger

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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Best Quotes about Anger

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

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

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

Greg Evans

11.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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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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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.

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

19.

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

Bible

20.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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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 is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Freud, Sigmund

28.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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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

32.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

33.

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

Emily Dickinson

34.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

35.

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

Webster, John

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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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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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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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

43.

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

Proverb

45.

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

Thurber, James

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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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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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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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