Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

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

Proverb

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emily Dickinson

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

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

Mckay, David O.

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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bible

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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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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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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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

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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.

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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