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

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

Emily Dickinson

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Greg Evans

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

Bacon, Francis

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

10.

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

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dickinson, Emily

18.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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

Boyes, John F.

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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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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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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

25.

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

Bible

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

Mario Puzo

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

Floyd, Pink

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

32.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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

Shakespeare, William

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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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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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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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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 wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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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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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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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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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