Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

- Harriet Lerner

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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

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

Horace

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

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

George, David Lloyd

11.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

12.

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.

13.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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

19.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Henry Ward Beecher

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

30.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Mckay, David O.

36.

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

Thurber, James

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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

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

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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

41.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

42.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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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

46.

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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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.

48.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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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