Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ellis, Havelock

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.

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

11.

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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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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

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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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

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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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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise 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

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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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 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.

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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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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

44.

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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No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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