Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Horace

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

Harris, Sidney J.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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

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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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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

20.

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Russell, Bertrand

26.

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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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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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.

29.

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

Ruskin, John

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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.

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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

34.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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

Seneca

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

Pope, Alexander

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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Ellis, Havelock

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.