Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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

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

Boyes, John F.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Hull, Bobby

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

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Floyd, Pink

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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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

11.

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

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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

13.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Russell, Bertrand

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Baldwin, James

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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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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.

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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

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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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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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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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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

42.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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