Motivational Quotes

Anger

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

George, David Lloyd

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

13.

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

Bible

15.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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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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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

21.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ruskin, John

25.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Dyer, Wayne

27.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

33.

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

34.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

35.

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

Mckay, David O.

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Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

40.

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

41.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

45.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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

Greg Evans

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo