Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Baldwin, James

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

Secker, Thomas

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

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ruskin, John

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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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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

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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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Mckay, David O.

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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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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Thurber, James

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

Proverb

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

28.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Shakespeare, William

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Wallenda, Karl

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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

Edwards, Tryon

41.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mario Puzo

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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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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Floyd, Pink

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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca