Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Thurber, James

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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.

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Quincey, Thomas De

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

13.

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

15.

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

Seneca

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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Pope, Alexander

19.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

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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

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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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

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

Floyd, Pink

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

27.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

28.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

34.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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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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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

40.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

41.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

43.

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

44.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

45.

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

46.

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.