Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is a brief lunacy.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Anger

The best answer to anger is silence.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Shenstone, William

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

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

Greg Evans

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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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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

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

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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Ellis, Havelock

21.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

23.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Floyd, Pink

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Renard, Jules

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

39.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

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 as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh