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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Greg Evans

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

Baldwin, James

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

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

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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

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

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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

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Shakespeare, William

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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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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

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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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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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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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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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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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Bacon, Francis

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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 like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton