Motivational Quotes

Anger

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Plato

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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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

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

Seneca

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Mario Puzo

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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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.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bible

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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