Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Anger

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

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

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

11.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

Secker, Thomas

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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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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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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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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

18.

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

Ellis, Havelock

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

21.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

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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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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

27.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

28.

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

Laurence J. Peter

29.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

34.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

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

Mizner, Wilson

37.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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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 broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

46.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha