Motivational Quotes

Anger

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Freud, Sigmund

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

10.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

11.

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

12.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

13.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Francis De Sales, St.

15.

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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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.

18.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

21.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

23.

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

Emily Dickinson

25.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

27.

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

Renard, Jules

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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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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

33.

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

34.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Floyd, Pink

37.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

38.

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.

39.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

40.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

42.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

43.

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 will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Mckay, David O.

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Shakespeare, William