Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Harris, Sidney J.

Best Quotes about Anger

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Shakespeare, William

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

Webster, John

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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

Bible

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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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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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

Plato

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Maxim, Samurai

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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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.

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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

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

Buddha

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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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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

39.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Russell, Bertrand

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace