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

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

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

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

Proverb, Malabar

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

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

Wallenda, Karl

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.

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

10.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

Plato

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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

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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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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Webster, John

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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

18.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Edwards, Tryon

21.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

24.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

25.

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

27.

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

28.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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.

32.

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

33.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

35.

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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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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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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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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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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 deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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