Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Anger

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Plato

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Bible

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

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

10.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

11.

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.

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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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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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 is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

16.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

20.

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

21.

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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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

Ellis, Havelock

33.

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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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

35.

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

Greg Evans

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

40.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

41.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

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

Thurber, James

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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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.

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Hugo, Victor

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No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham