Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Laurence J. Peter

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.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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

Plato

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

12.

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

13.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

14.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

15.

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

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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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

20.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

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

22.

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

Greer, Germaine

23.

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

Bible

24.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

25.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

26.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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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

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

The best answer to anger is silence.

31.

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

32.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

33.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

35.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

36.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

38.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Seneca

40.

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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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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

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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

44.

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Buddha

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