Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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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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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.

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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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

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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

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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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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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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

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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

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Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Secker, Thomas

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

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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

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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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