Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Magnus, Saint Albertus

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

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.

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

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 is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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

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

Renard, Jules

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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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.

23.

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Proverb

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

Wallenda, Karl

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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.