Motivational Quotes

Anger

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

- Mario Puzo

Best Quotes about Anger

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Bible

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

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

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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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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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

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

Webster, John

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Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Bacon, Francis

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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