Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

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

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

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.

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.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

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

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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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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

Mizner, Wilson

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The best answer to anger is silence.

15.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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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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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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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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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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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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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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Depression is rage spread thin.