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

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

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

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

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Horace

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

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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.

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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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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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The best answer to anger is silence.

19.

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Pope, Alexander

23.

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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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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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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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

Churchill, Winston

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Kundera, Milan

47.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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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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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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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher