Motivational Quotes

Anger

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Anger

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ruskin, John

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Horace

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.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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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

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Buddha

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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.

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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

31.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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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

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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

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Dickinson, Emily

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Wallenda, Karl

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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 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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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.

Barton, Clara

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

Cherie Carter-Scott