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

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

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Proverb, Malabar

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Thurber, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Renard, Jules

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bible

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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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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

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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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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Bible

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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