Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

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

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

11.

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

12.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

13.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

20.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

21.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Churchill, Winston

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

26.

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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

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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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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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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

34.

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

35.

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

Ruskin, John

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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mizner, Wilson

42.

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

Buddha

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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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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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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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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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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace