Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb

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

Greg Evans

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Ruskin, John

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

Landor, Walter Savage

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

The best answer to anger is silence.

10.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

11.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

12.

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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Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

14.

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

Proverb

15.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

16.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

17.

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

Greer, Germaine

18.

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

Wallenda, Karl

19.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

23.

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

Seneca

24.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

25.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

26.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Laurence J. Peter

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

34.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

35.

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

36.

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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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

38.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

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

40.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

41.

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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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

43.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

48.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

49.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

50.

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

Bierce, Ambrose