Motivational Quotes

Anger

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

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

Secker, Thomas

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.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

Seneca

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

Greg Evans

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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.

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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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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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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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose