Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

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

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

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Francis De Sales, St.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Buddha

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

Mizner, Wilson

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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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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 ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

29.

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

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Mario Puzo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pope, Alexander

41.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Renard, Jules

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Greg Evans