Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Renard, Jules

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

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

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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

Proverb, Malabar

10.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

11.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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 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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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.

25.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

28.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

Plato

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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

32.

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

33.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

42.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus