Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

Mckay, David O.

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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

Bible

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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

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Floyd, Pink

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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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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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.

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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

Pope, Alexander

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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.