Motivational Quotes

Anger

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Francis De Sales, St.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Webster, John

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

Mckay, David O.

11.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

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

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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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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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

21.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

23.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

25.

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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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

27.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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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

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

32.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

37.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

38.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

43.

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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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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

47.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

48.

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

Russell, Bertrand

49.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

50.

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