Motivational Quotes

Anger

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Anger

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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

Renard, Jules

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

Greg Evans

11.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

12.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

13.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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

20.

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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

24.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Webster, John

28.

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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Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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

34.

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

Hull, Bobby

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Akhenaton

40.

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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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

43.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Greer, Germaine

49.

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

Shakespeare, William