Motivational Quotes

Anger

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Emily Dickinson

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

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

Buddha

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

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

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

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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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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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Dyer, Wayne

16.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

19.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Akhenaton

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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

Plato

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

Boyes, John F.

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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

Ellis, Havelock

38.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Ruskin, John

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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