Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Emily Dickinson

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Joubert, Joseph

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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

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

Plato

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

18.

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.

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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

20.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

22.

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

Proverb, Malabar

23.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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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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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Seneca

29.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

30.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

36.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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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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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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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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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.