Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Anger

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Russell, Bertrand

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proverb

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Plato

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Bible

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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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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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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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.

38.

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

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emily Dickinson

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.