Motivational Quotes

Anger

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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Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb

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

Plato

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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

Ruskin, John

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

Mckay, David O.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

10.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

11.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

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

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

Bible

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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 best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

18.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

19.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

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

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I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

33.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

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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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

40.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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

49.

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

50.

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

Aurelius, Marcus