Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Floyd, Pink

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Horace

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

Emily Dickinson

10.

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

Baldwin, James

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb

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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.

14.

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

Bible

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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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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

17.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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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.

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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

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

28.

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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

30.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Floyd, Pink

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

34.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

37.

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

38.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

39.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

41.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

43.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

44.

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

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Dyer, Wayne

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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

49.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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Depression is rage spread thin.