Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Anger

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Greg Evans

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Angelou, Maya

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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

Bible

23.

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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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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

29.

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

30.

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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

32.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

Horace

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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

38.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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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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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]