Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Quincey, Thomas De

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Fuller, Thomas

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Dyer, Wayne

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Proverb, Malabar

11.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Secker, Thomas

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Ruskin, John

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I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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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

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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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

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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

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Hugo, Victor

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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