Motivational Quotes

Anger

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Anger

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Bible

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

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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.

10.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

Seneca

14.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

15.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Sarnoff, David

18.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Greer, Germaine

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

24.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

25.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

26.

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.

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

28.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

29.

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.

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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.

Gaulle, Charles De

31.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

32.

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

Thurber, James

33.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

37.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

40.

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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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

42.

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

Laurence J. Peter

43.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

44.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

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

Mckay, David O.

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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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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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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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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