Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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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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

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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

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

Horace

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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 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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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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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Emily Dickinson

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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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

Buddha

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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Shenstone, William

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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

Greg Evans

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

George, David Lloyd

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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott