Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mckay, David O.

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

10.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

11.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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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The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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

Greg Evans

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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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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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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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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

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Ellis, Havelock

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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

28.

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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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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The best answer to anger is silence.

31.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Churchill, Winston

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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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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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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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

42.

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

Bible

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

Thurber, James

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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