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

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Shenstone, William

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Horace

10.

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

Lucan, F. L.

11.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

12.

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

Mario Puzo

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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

15.

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

Dyer, Wayne

16.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

17.

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

Secker, Thomas

18.

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.

19.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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

Floyd, Pink

21.

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

22.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

24.

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

25.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Ellis, Havelock

29.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

30.

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

31.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

32.

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

33.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

34.

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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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

36.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

37.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

38.

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

Mckay, David O.

39.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ruskin, John

44.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

45.

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

Churchill, Winston

46.

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.

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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.

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

49.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

50.

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

Renard, Jules