Motivational Quotes

Anger

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

- Chapman, George

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Greg Evans

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Edwards, Tryon

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The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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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

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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

42.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Bible

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

Horace

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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.

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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Seneca