Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Francis De Sales, St.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

Secker, Thomas

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

11.

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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

13.

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

Edwards, Tryon

14.

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

Proverb

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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

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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

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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

23.

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

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

29.

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

31.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fuller, Thomas

37.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Plato

39.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

41.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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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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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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