Motivational Quotes

Anger

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

- SeVigne, Marquise De

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Thurber, James

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Halifax, Edward F.

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Ruskin, John

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Seneca

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Buddha

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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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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

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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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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Proverb, Malabar

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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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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

44.

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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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal