Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger cannot be dishonest.

- Bach, George R.

Best Quotes about 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.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

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.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Renard, Jules

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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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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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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

22.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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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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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

26.

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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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

28.

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

Seneca

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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

35.

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

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Greer, Germaine

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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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

Buddha

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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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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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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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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas