Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Boyes, John F.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Laurence J. Peter

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Bible

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Bible

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

10.

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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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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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

15.

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

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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

19.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

20.

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

Renard, Jules

21.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

22.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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

Emily Dickinson

25.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

26.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

27.

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

Mckay, David O.

28.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

31.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

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

Greg Evans

33.

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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Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

35.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

36.

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

Wallenda, Karl

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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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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Joubert, Joseph

40.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

42.

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

Buddha

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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

44.

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

Bible

45.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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

Henry Ward Beecher