Motivational Quotes

Anger

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Fuller, Thomas

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Dyer, Wayne

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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

Shenstone, William

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

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 may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

11.

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

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Bible

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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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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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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Hull, Bobby

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Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Mario Puzo

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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

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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