Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is a brief lunacy.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Greer, Germaine

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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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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Wallenda, Karl

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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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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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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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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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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.

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

Plato

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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

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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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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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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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle