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

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

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

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 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

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

Boyes, John F.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

10.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Bible

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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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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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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mario Puzo

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

Churchill, Winston

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Edwards, Tryon

28.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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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 anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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