Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Shenstone, William

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

Seneca

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Syrus, Publilius

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

10.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

11.

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

12.

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

Pope, Alexander

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Buddha

15.

The best answer to anger is silence.

16.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

21.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Bible

25.

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

Greg Evans

26.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

27.

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

Lucan, F. L.

28.

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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

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

32.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

36.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

37.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

38.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

40.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

42.

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

43.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

44.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

45.

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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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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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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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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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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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