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

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

Shenstone, William

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

Webster, John

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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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.

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

Plato

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Horace

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

Emily Dickinson

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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 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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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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

Floyd, Pink

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

Bible

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Renard, Jules

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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