Motivational Quotes

Anger

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Anger

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

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

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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

Webster, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Wallenda, Karl

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No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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

Hugo, Victor

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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.

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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

41.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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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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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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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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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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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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara