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

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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

10.

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

Laurence J. Peter

11.

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

Wallenda, Karl

12.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

13.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

14.

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

Ruskin, John

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

21.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Renard, Jules

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

Dyer, Wayne

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

27.

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.

28.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

29.

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

34.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

35.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

36.

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: 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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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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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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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

41.

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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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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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

45.

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

Seneca

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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