Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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

Seneca

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Buddha

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

Webster, John

10.

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

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

13.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dyer, Wayne

18.

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

Greer, Germaine

19.

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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

23.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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

Pope, Alexander

27.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

28.

The best answer to anger is silence.

29.

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

Maxim, Samurai

30.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

38.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

39.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.