Motivational Quotes

Anger

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

10.

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

Shenstone, William

12.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

23.

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

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Greg Evans

29.

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

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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

Ruskin, John

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

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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

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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.

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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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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

41.

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

Floyd, Pink

42.

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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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

44.

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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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