Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

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

Buddha

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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

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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

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Seneca

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh