Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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

10.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

11.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

12.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Wallenda, Karl

16.

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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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

18.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

20.

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

Dyer, Wayne

21.

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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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

23.

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

24.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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

Horace

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

29.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

30.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

33.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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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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Kundera, Milan

37.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

40.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

46.

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

Greg Evans

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

Joubert, Joseph

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