Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Thurber, James

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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.

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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Proverb, Malabar

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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

19.

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

20.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

21.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

22.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

26.

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

Joubert, Joseph

27.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

28.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

34.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Dickinson, Emily

36.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

38.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Mckay, David O.

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

44.

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

Mizner, Wilson

45.

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

Floyd, Pink

46.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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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

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Seneca

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

Bierce, Ambrose