Anger Quotes | Beyond Motive

"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Anger, Consequences

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"Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger."

Horace, Roman Poet

Anger, Men, Lawyers, Words

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"I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!"

Carmen Miranda, Portuguese Musician

Anger, Time, Wedding, Argument

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"But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out."

Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian Politician

Anger, Thought, Control, State

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"You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do."

Nicole Kidman, Australian Actress

Anger, Forgiveness, Children, Help

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"Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger."

Abu Bakr, Saudi Arabian Statesman

Anger, Greed, Lust, Saudiarabian

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"I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed."

Boris Trajkovski, Macedonian Statesman

Anger, Accusations, Succeed

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"Your anger is a gift."

Zack de la Rocha, American Musician

Anger,

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"The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger."

Nigel Mansell, British Athlete

Anger, Car, Time, Commitment

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"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."

Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader

Anger, Enemies, Intolerance, Understanding

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"I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands."

Babe Ruth, American Athlete

Anger, Umpire

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"Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger."

Thucydides, Greek Historian

Anger, Being, Causes, First

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"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

Anger, Injury

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

Buddha, Indian Leader

Anger, Will

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"Hatred is inveterate anger."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Anger, Hatred

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Anger, Regret, Speech, Will

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"When you are angry, don't react. Respond with consideration, kindness, and love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Anger, Kindness, Love, Consideration

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"He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor."

Sarah Bernhardt, French Actress

Anger, Actor, Being, Feeling

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"The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger."

Henry Walter Bates, English Environmentalist

Anger, Poor, Trouble

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"My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later."

Wilfred Burchett, Australian Journalist

Anger, First

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

Indira Gandhi, Indian Statesman

Anger, Argument

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"The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion."

Bodhidharma, Indian Leader

Anger, Delusion, Greed, Infinite

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"I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through."

Michael Richards, American Actor

Anger, People, Hate

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"As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy."

Shelley Berman, American Comedian

Anger, Music, Sex, Culture

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"When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important."

Andrew Shue, American Actor

Anger, Age, Feelings, Expression

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"Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control."

Jack Henry Abbott, American Author

Anger, Life, Control, Day

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"There is an element of anger among women who've been raped. There's certainly a major element of humiliation. But it really does seem like a medical condition of shock and horror."

Nicholas D. Kristof, American Writer

Anger, Medical, Women, Horror

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"Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years."

Paddy Ashdown, British Politician

Anger, Guilt, Sense, Skin

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"Anger is a short madness."

Horace, Roman Poet

Anger, Madness

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"I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger."

Jon Crosby, American Musician

Anger, Alienation, Causes, Company

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"Blow wind and crack your cheeks. Rage! Blow!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Anger, Power, Truth, Life, Reality

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"I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger."

Alan Alda, American Actor

Anger, People

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"Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on."

Alice Duer Miller, American Poet

Anger, Forgiveness, Faces

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"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."

James Thurber, American Comedian

Anger, Fear, Awareness

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"Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace."

Eddie Bernice Johnson, American Politician

Anger, Peace, Management, Conflict

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"In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within."

Chen Ning Yang, American Physicist

Anger, People, Corruption, Expression

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"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Anger, Men, Poor, Witty

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

Horace, Roman Poet

Anger, Temper, Will

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"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

Anger, Reason

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"When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Anger, Right, Wrong

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"The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic."

Dominic Chianese, American Actor

Anger, Funny, Father, Son

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"What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

Anger, Change, Performance, Deep

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"Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound."

Ford Frick, American Journalist

Anger, Decision, Sound, Temper

"My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved."

Roberta Flack, American Musician

Anger, Music, Hope, Today

"Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference."

Philip Stanhope, British Statesman

Anger, Indifference

"When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans."

Margaret J. Wheatley, American Writer

Anger, Fear, Aggression

"The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi."

Dave Thomas, American Businessman

Anger, Men, Women, Being

"Like fragile ice anger passes away in time."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Anger, Time

"In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well."

Edmund S. Muskie, American Politician

Anger, Exaggeration

"There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear."

Frank Luntz, American Politician

Anger, People, Communication