Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Boyes, John F.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

The best answer to anger is silence.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

13.

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

Bible

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

16.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

18.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Bacon, Francis

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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 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

25.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

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

31.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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

Ellis, Havelock

35.

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

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Angelou, Maya

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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.

39.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

40.

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

Renard, Jules

41.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

42.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

43.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

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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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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

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

47.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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