Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Mario Puzo

Best Quotes about Anger

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

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

Bacon, Francis

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Shenstone, William

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Harris, Sidney J.

10.

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

11.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

13.

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

Renard, Jules

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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.

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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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

Laurence J. Peter

17.

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

Ruskin, John

18.

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

19.

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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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

21.

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

Edwards, Tryon

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

24.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

25.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

27.

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

Ellis, Havelock

28.

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

Secker, Thomas

30.

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.

31.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

32.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

34.

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

Bible

35.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

38.

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

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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

40.

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

Floyd, Pink

41.

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

Thurber, James

42.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.