Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

Long, Haniel

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

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

Bible

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

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The best answer to anger is silence.

13.

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

14.

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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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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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

18.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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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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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

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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 is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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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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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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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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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.

29.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

30.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Bible

33.

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

Pope, Alexander

34.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

37.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

38.

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

Mckay, David O.

39.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

40.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

41.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

46.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]