Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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

Proverb, Malabar

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buddha

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

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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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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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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Mckay, David O.

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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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

38.

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

Bible

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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

Seneca

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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Mario Puzo

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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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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