Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Churchill, Winston

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Renard, Jules

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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.

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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 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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

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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

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

Bible

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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 like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean 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

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

Secker, Thomas

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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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.