Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Horace

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Bible

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

Boyes, John F.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fuller, Thomas

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Laurence J. Peter

10.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

11.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

12.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

13.

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

14.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

17.

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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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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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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

Thurber, James

21.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

22.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

23.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

24.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

25.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

26.

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

Edwards, Tryon

27.

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.

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

34.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

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

38.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

39.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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

41.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

43.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

44.

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

45.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich