Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bible

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Shakespeare, William

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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

11.

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

12.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

Seneca

14.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

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

Thurber, James

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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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

18.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

19.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

20.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

24.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

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

Mckay, David O.

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

28.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

29.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

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

31.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

32.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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

Ruskin, John

36.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

38.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

39.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

40.

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

Shenstone, William

41.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

44.

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

45.

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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

47.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

48.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward