Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Anger

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

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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

Dyer, Wayne

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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

10.

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

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

14.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

15.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

16.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

17.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

18.

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

Dyer, Wayne

19.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

Lucan, F. L.

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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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

Renard, Jules

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

Hugo, Victor

24.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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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.

26.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

29.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

32.

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

Hull, Bobby

33.

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

34.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

35.

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

Bible

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

39.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

40.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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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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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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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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

Greg Evans

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.

47.

The best answer to anger is silence.

48.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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