Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

18.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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

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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.

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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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

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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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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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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

27.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Francis De Sales, St.

30.

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

Mckay, David O.

31.

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

32.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Maxim, Samurai

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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