Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Seneca

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

14.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

17.

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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

21.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

28.

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

Edwards, Tryon

29.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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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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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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.

41.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

42.

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

43.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

44.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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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

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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