Motivational Quotes

Anger

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Proverb, Malabar

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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

Proverb

11.

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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Floyd, Pink

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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.

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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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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.

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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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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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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

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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

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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 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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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

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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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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William