Motivational Quotes

Anger

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Anger

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]

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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.

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.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

10.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Edwards, Tryon

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

16.

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

Buddha

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Greer, Germaine

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

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

Secker, Thomas

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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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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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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

Floyd, Pink

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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.

34.

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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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Greg Evans

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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 an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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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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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