Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Sarnoff, David

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Seneca

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

Greg Evans

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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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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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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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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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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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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