Motivational Quotes

Anger

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

- I Ching

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

10.

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

Renard, Jules

11.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Buddha

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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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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

20.

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.

21.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

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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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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

27.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

30.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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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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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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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

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dyer, Wayne

37.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

38.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

40.

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

Greg Evans

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

Schuller, Robert H.

44.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

45.

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

Thurber, James

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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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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

48.

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

Dyer, Wayne

49.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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