Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Laurence J. Peter

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ellis, Havelock

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

10.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

11.

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.

12.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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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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

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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

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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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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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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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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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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

Russell, Bertrand