Motivational Quotes

Anger

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Buddha

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

Bible

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

The best answer to anger is silence.

11.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

12.

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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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

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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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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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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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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 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 person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ruskin, John

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

25.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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

Bible

27.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

28.

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

Greer, Germaine

29.

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

Mario Puzo

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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

34.

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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

41.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

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

Floyd, Pink

43.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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