Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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 is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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

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

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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

Gracian, Baltasar

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

10.

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 itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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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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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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.

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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Horace

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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

25.

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.

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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

32.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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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

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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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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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

41.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Buddha

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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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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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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

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius