Motivational Quotes

Anger

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

- Francis De Sales, St.

Best Quotes about Anger

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Mckay, David O.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

12.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mizner, Wilson

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Secker, Thomas

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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

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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

Bible

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