Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Anger

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Carlyle, Thomas

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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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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

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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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.

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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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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.

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Plato

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Wallenda, Karl

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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

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

Lucan, F. L.

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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

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