Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Mario Puzo

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Boyes, John F.

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Greer, Germaine

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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

Thurber, James

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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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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The best answer to anger is silence.

21.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Ruskin, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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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 most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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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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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Francis De Sales, St.

41.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.