Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Greg Evans

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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

Joubert, Joseph

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Baldwin, James

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Seneca

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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Renard, Jules

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

Bible

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

32.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Buddha

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

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

Proverb

39.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Mario Puzo

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos