Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

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Best Quotes about Anger

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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.

2.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

3.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

4.

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

Emily Dickinson

5.

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

Laurence J. Peter

6.

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

Sarnoff, David

7.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

8.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

9.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Dyer, Wayne

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

Proverb

14.

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

Bible

15.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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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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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

18.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

20.

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

Russell, Bertrand

21.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

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

Greg Evans

23.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

24.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

25.

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

Akhenaton

26.

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

Floyd, Pink

27.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

28.

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

Dickinson, Emily

29.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

30.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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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

37.

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

Epictetus

38.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

39.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

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

Buddha

41.

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

Dyer, Wayne

42.

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

Mario Puzo

43.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

44.

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

Greer, Germaine

45.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Angelou, Maya

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

50.

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