Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Quincey, Thomas De

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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.

11.

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

Ruskin, John

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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.

15.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Pope, Alexander

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Edwards, Tryon

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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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

Renard, Jules

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Emily Dickinson

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

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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

49.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Horace