Motivational Quotes

Anger

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Syrus, Publilius

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.

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

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

Bible

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Thurber, James

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

13.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

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

18.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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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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

21.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

23.

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

Fuller, Thomas

24.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Shakespeare, William

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

27.

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

28.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

Webster, John

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

Pope, Alexander

33.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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

35.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

36.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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

Francis De Sales, St.

38.

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

Akhenaton

40.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Seneca

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

49.

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

Shakespeare, William

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb