Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

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

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

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

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

11.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

12.

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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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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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.

15.

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.

16.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

17.

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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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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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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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

24.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

25.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

28.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

31.

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

32.

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

Thurber, James

33.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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.

37.

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

38.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

39.

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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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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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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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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

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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.

47.

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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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

49.

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

Greer, Germaine

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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