Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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

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Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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

Greg Evans

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Seneca

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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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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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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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Bible

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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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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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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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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.

39.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Bible

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

Wallenda, Karl

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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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Cervantes, Miguel De