Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

Henry Ward Beecher

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Shenstone, William

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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

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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

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

Bible

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The best answer to anger is silence.

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Mario Puzo

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Greg Evans

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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

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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