Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Anger

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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

Proverb, Malabar

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Shenstone, William

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Akhenaton

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

10.

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

11.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

12.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

13.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

14.

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

15.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

16.

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

Hugo, Victor

17.

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.

18.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

19.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

20.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

21.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

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.

23.

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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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

25.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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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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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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

31.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

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

Mario Puzo

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

36.

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

Edwards, Tryon

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

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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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

41.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

42.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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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

45.

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

Horace

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

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