Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Greg Evans

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

Seneca

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

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

Maxim, Samurai

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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

Mckay, David O.

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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

26.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

27.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

30.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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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

32.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

33.

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

Quarles, Francis

34.

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

35.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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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 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

39.

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

40.

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

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

42.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

43.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

44.

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

Proverb

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 is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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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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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca