Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Laurence J. Peter

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Quarles, Francis

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

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

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

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

Proverb

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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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.

10.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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

16.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

17.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

18.

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

Greer, Germaine

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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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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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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

22.

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

Webster, John

23.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

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

Greg Evans

26.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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

30.

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

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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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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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Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb

39.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

40.

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

41.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

42.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Francis De Sales, St.

46.

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

47.

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Pope, Alexander

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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