Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sarnoff, David

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

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Thurber, James

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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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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.

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

Greg Evans

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

Webster, John

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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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

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Boyes, John F.

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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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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.