Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Anger

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Secker, Thomas

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Quincey, Thomas De

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Horace

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Dyer, Wayne

11.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

14.

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

Greg Evans

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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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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

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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

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

Proverb

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

37.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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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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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb