Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Proverb, Malabar

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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

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

Seneca

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

Secker, Thomas

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

10.

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

11.

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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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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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.

14.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

16.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

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

18.

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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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

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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

22.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

27.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

28.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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

30.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

31.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

32.

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

Ellis, Havelock

33.

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

34.

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

Plato

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Aurelius, Marcus

38.

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

Joubert, Joseph

39.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

40.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

41.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

44.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Buddha

46.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Lucan, F. L.

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward