Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Landor, Walter Savage

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Bible

The best answer to anger is silence.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Seneca

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

Boyes, John F.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

10.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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

Buddha

12.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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

Akhenaton

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Renard, Jules

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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 that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

39.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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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 man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mario Puzo

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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.