Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Seneca

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Renard, Jules

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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.

10.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Harris, Sidney J.

28.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

32.

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

33.

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

34.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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

Pope, Alexander

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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.