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

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Laurence J. Peter

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

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

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.

10.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

11.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ruskin, John

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A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Thurber, James

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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.

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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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.

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Mckay, David O.

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

33.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Plato

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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

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

40.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

41.

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Malabar

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