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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Renard, Jules

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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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.

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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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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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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, 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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The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Bible

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

George, David Lloyd

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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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb, Malabar

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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

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Mckay, David O.

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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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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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 is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.