Motivational Quotes

Anger

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Floyd, Pink

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

14.

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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Secker, Thomas

19.

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

The best answer to anger is silence.

28.

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

Mario Puzo

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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

30.

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

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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

40.

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

Bible

41.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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

Baldwin, James