Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Anger

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Epictetus

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

10.

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

11.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

18.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

19.

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

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Horace

22.

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

23.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

24.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

25.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

26.

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

27.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

28.

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.

29.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

30.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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

33.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Proverb, Malabar

35.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

36.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

39.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

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

Joubert, Joseph

41.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

42.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

44.

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

Emily Dickinson

45.

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

46.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

49.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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