Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about 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.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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

Seneca

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Wallenda, Karl

10.

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

Akhenaton

11.

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

Greg Evans

12.

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

13.

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

Buddha

14.

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

15.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

18.

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

Renard, Jules

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

Proverb, Malabar

21.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

22.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

23.

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

Russell, Bertrand

24.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

25.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

27.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

28.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

29.

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

Emily Dickinson

30.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

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

Plato

34.

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

37.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

41.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

42.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

43.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

44.

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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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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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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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

48.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

49.

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

50.

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

Churchill, Winston