Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

- Proverb, Malabar

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Thurber, James

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Webster, John

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Lucan, F. L.

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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

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Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

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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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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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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Pope, Alexander

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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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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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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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.

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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.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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