Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Floyd, Pink

Best Quotes about Anger

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

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Renard, Jules

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

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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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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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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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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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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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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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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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Bible

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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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

Lucan, F. L.

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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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 discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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 most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ruskin, John

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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Buddha