Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Quincey, Thomas De

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Harris, Sidney J.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Webster, John

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

Thurber, James

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

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

Seneca

13.

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

14.

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 itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

21.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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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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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

25.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

28.

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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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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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

31.

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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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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Plato

40.

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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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

43.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

44.

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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Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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

Mario Puzo

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Russell, Bertrand

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