Motivational Quotes

Anger

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Edwards, Tryon

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Seneca

13.

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.

14.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

17.

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

18.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

20.

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.

21.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Dyer, Wayne

25.

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

26.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

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

28.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

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

30.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

31.

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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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

33.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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 best answer to anger is silence.

37.

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

Emily Dickinson

38.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

43.

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.

44.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

45.

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

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne