Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Thurber, James

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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

Mckay, David O.

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

21.

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

24.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

31.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

32.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

33.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

34.

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

Ruskin, John

35.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Carlyle, Thomas