Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

- Cherie Carter-Scott

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Thurber, James

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

Secker, Thomas

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

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Quarles, Francis

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

11.

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

Renard, Jules

12.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Bible

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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.

21.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Greg Evans

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

Maxim, Samurai

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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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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

35.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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

Ellis, Havelock

38.

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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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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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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

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

Freud, Sigmund

49.

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

50.

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