Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Quincey, Thomas De

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Fuller, Thomas

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

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

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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 angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

11.

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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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Seneca

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

Quincey, Thomas De

16.

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

17.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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

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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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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

22.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

24.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Ruskin, John

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Webster, John

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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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

34.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

35.

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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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Buddha

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

49.

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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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