Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Ellis, Havelock

Best Quotes about Anger

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

10.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

11.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

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

Bible

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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Shakespeare, William

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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

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

Edwards, Tryon

18.

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.

19.

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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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

21.

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

Bible

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Henry Ward Beecher

25.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

33.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

34.

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

Webster, John

35.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

37.

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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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.

39.

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

Sarnoff, David

40.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Mario Puzo

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

Landor, Walter Savage

45.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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.