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

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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

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

Plato

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

Henry Ward Beecher

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

10.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

12.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

Thurber, James

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Russell, Bertrand

16.

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

Edwards, Tryon

17.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

18.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

21.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

23.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

25.

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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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

27.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

29.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

31.

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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

33.

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

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

36.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb

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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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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

43.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

44.

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

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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

46.

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.

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De