Motivational Quotes

Anger

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

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Best Quotes about Anger

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bible

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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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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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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

Ruskin, John

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Shakespeare, William

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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mizner, Wilson

27.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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The best answer to anger is silence.

30.

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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

43.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

44.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bible

47.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

49.

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

Dickinson, Emily