Motivational Quotes

Anger

Between the anvil and the hammer.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Webster, John

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

11.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Mizner, Wilson

14.

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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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

17.

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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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

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

Mckay, David O.

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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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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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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

26.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

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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

28.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

29.

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

Thurber, James

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

Proverb

32.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

33.

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

Emily Dickinson

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

37.

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

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

Laurence J. Peter

40.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

44.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

45.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

46.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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