Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

- Sivananda, Sri Swami

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Bible

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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Laurence J. Peter

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Ruskin, John

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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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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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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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Shenstone, William

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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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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

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.