Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Webster, John

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wallenda, Karl

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

10.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Harris, Sidney J.

17.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

18.

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

Greer, Germaine

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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

20.

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

Ellis, Havelock

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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.

22.

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

Renard, Jules

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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

25.

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

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

Bible

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

Bible

28.

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

29.

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

Bible

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

33.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

34.

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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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.

36.

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

37.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

38.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

39.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

Proverb, Malabar

42.

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

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Colton, Charles Caleb