Motivational Quotes

Anger

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Anger

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bacon, Francis

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb

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

Schuller, Robert H.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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.

10.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Bible

13.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

14.

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

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

18.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

21.

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.

22.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

23.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

24.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

25.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

26.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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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

30.

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

Thurber, James

31.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Proverb

34.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

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

Pope, Alexander

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Greer, Germaine

38.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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.

40.

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

Laurence J. Peter

41.

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

42.

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

Sarnoff, David

43.

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

Mario Puzo

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

Ruskin, John

45.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

46.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar