Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lucan, F. L.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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

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.

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

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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

Bible

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

Greer, Germaine

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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

20.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

25.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

Hugo, Victor

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Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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

Quarles, Francis

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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

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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.

35.

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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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Boyes, John F.

38.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

40.

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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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

42.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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