Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Thurber, James

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

10.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Greg Evans

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

Boyes, John F.

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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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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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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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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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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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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Floyd, Pink

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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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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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

Secker, Thomas

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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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