Motivational Quotes

Anger

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

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

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

11.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

13.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

14.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

18.

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.

19.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

20.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Webster, John

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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

24.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

29.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

33.

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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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

36.

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

Plato

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

43.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

44.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

45.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

46.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

47.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.