Motivational Quotes

Anger

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Freud, Sigmund

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Buddha

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

Greer, Germaine

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

10.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Bible

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The best answer to anger is silence.

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Boyes, John F.

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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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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.

29.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

30.

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

Floyd, Pink

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Plato

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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

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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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

Renard, Jules

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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

44.

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

45.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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