Motivational Quotes

Anger

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

- Harris, Sidney J.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Halifax, Edward F.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

10.

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

Bible

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

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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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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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 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

16.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

18.

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

Floyd, Pink

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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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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

21.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

24.

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

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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Plato

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Mizner, Wilson

39.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

40.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

41.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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

Bible

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks