Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Renard, Jules

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Greg Evans

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

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

Mario Puzo

17.

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

Buddha

19.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

20.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

21.

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.

22.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

23.

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 deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

25.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

27.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

28.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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 mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

31.

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

George, David Lloyd

32.

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

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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

36.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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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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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

40.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

41.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

42.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

43.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

44.

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

45.

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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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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