Motivational Quotes

Anger

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

- Malcolm X

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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

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

Plato

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

Fuller, Thomas

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Thurber, James

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

17.

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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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Seneca

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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Bible

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Epictetus

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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

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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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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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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

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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Proverb, Malabar

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.