Motivational Quotes

Anger

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Mckay, David O.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

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

Secker, Thomas

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

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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

Boyes, John F.

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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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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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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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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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Thurber, James

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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Laurence J. Peter

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bible

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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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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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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Ellis, Havelock