Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Shakespeare, William

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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

Webster, John

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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

11.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Thurber, James

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

16.

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

Shakespeare, William

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

22.

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

Renard, Jules

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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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.

33.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

34.

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

39.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Buddha

41.

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

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Proverb

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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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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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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]

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