Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Renard, Jules

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Seneca

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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Mario Puzo

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

Proverb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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.

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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

Mckay, David O.

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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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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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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

Quincey, Thomas De