Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Anger

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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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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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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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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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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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