Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Ellis, Havelock

Best Quotes about Anger

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Wallenda, Karl

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

10.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

11.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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.

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

Greer, Germaine

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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Buddha

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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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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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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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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Greg Evans

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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.

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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thurber, James

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bible

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

42.

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

Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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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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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