Motivational Quotes

Anger

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Shenstone, William

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

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

Greer, Germaine

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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

14.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Greg Evans

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

Proverb

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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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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Boyes, John F.

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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.

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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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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

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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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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 are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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

Buddha

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

Seneca

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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.

45.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca