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

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bierce, Ambrose

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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

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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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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

17.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Greer, Germaine

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

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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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

29.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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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

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fuller, Thomas

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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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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

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

Secker, Thomas

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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

Webster, John

42.

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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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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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Bacon, Francis

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder