Motivational Quotes

Anger

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Anger

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

Webster, John

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

Mizner, Wilson

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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

Floyd, Pink

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

10.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

11.

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

Sarnoff, David

12.

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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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Renard, Jules

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

16.

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

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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.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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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 is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

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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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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

30.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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

George, David Lloyd

34.

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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

36.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

39.

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

Thurber, James

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Pope, Alexander

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Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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