Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Akhenaton

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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.

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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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A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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 wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Secker, Thomas

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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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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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The best answer to anger is silence.

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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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

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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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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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David