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

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

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

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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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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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

Mckay, David O.

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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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

18.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

19.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

21.

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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

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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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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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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.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Plato

31.

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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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

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

Fuller, Thomas

37.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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

Bible

42.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

43.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Proverb

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]