Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Webster, John

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

10.

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

Dickinson, Emily

11.

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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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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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

14.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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

21.

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

Emily Dickinson

22.

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

23.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

24.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

27.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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

30.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

32.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

33.

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.

34.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

35.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

36.

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

Secker, Thomas

37.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

38.

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

Bacon, Francis

39.

The best answer to anger is silence.

40.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

41.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

44.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

45.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Proverb

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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.

48.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Mario Puzo

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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William