Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Quincey, Thomas De

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Seneca

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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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.

17.

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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]

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Ellis, Havelock

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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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The best answer to anger is silence.

28.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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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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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

35.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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

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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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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

39.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

42.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

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

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49.

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

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