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

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Webster, John

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.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Thurber, James

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

11.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

14.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Bible

18.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

19.

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

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Russell, Bertrand

27.

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

28.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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

32.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

33.

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.

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

36.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

38.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Lucan, F. L.

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Dyer, Wayne

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.