Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Joubert, Joseph

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

11.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Proverb

13.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

15.

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

16.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

17.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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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

21.

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

Sarnoff, David

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

25.

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

Hugo, Victor

26.

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

Mckay, David O.

27.

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

28.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

29.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

30.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

31.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

34.

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

Mario Puzo

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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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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

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

39.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

40.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

41.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

45.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.