Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Anger

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Mckay, David O.

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.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

10.

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

Laurence J. Peter

11.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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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

17.

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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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.

19.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

22.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

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

Renard, Jules

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

31.

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

32.

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

Hugo, Victor

33.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

34.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

35.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

36.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

38.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Bible

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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

Webster, John

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese