Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Seneca

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Dyer, Wayne

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

11.

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

12.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

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

14.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

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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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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

18.

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

19.

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

Freud, Sigmund

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

22.

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

23.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

24.

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

25.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

27.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

28.

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

Plato

29.

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

Ruskin, John

30.

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

Secker, Thomas

31.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

32.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

33.

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

Laurence J. Peter

34.

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

Shenstone, William

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

Bacon, Francis

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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Akhenaton

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

42.

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

43.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

46.

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

Maxim, Samurai

47.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

50.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De