Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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

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.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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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.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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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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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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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

19.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

25.

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

Greg Evans

26.

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

Hull, Bobby

27.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

30.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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

Plato

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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

34.

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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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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

Dyer, Wayne

37.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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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.

40.

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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The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

42.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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.