Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Greer, Germaine

Best Quotes about Anger

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Gracian, Baltasar

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Plato

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

10.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

11.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

12.

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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Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

14.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

16.

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

Horace

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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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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

35.

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.

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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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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

41.

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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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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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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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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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