Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Dyer, Wayne

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Renard, Jules

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Hugo, Victor

11.

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.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

Bible

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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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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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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

29.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

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

Lucan, F. L.

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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

40.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

41.

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

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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

Secker, Thomas

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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

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

Buddha

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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