Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Wallenda, Karl

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Bible

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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.

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

George, David Lloyd

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

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

Thurber, James

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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

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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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 deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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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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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Greg Evans

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Hugo, Victor

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

35.

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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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

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

Plato

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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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Bible

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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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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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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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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Mario Puzo