Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Bible

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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

11.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

12.

The best answer to anger is silence.

13.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

14.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

15.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

16.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

18.

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.

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

22.

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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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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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

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

30.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

31.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

32.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

33.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

34.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Proverb

38.

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.

39.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Mckay, David O.

42.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

43.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

44.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

45.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

46.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

48.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

49.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

50.

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