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

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

Horace

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

Hugo, Victor

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Mario Puzo

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

Seneca

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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

10.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

11.

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

Dickinson, Emily

12.

The best answer to anger is silence.

13.

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

14.

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

Floyd, Pink

15.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

20.

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

Mckay, David O.

21.

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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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

23.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

24.

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

Proverb

25.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

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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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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

32.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

33.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

41.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

42.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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

Francis De Sales, St.

47.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De