Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

- Harriet Lerner

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Shakespeare, William

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

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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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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Freud, Sigmund

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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.

27.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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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.

34.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Plato

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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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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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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

Proverb

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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.