Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Renard, Jules

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

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

10.

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

11.

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

14.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

15.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

16.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

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

Floyd, Pink

20.

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

Greer, Germaine

21.

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

28.

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.

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

Seneca

30.

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

Emily Dickinson

31.

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

32.

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

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33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

Plato

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mckay, David O.

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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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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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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

40.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

41.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

42.

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

43.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

44.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

45.

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Pope, Alexander

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

50.

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]

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