Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Mckay, David O.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Shenstone, William

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

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

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

Floyd, Pink

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

10.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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

Landor, Walter Savage

15.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

17.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

18.

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

Dickinson, Emily

19.

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

Bible

21.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

22.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

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

Wallenda, Karl

24.

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

25.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

26.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

29.

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

30.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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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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.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

34.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

35.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

36.

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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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

38.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

39.

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

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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

44.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

45.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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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

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