Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

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

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.

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

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

Bible

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.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Hugo, Victor

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Bible

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

39.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

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

Epictetus

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

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

Mario Puzo