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

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

Dyer, Wayne

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Buddha

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

Ellis, Havelock

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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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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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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 most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

36.

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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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

42.

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

Renard, Jules

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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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Bhagavad Gita

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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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

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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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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