Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Mckay, David O.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Akhenaton

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

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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

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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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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

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Buddha

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

24.

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

Renard, Jules

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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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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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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

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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

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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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

35.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

43.

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

Proverb

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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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]

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