Motivational Quotes

Anger

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

Mario Puzo

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

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

Renard, Jules

11.

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

12.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Sarnoff, David

18.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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.

21.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

22.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

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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.

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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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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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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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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

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

29.

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

30.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Seneca

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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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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I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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

Lucan, F. L.

40.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb

43.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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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.

45.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

48.

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

Mizner, Wilson

49.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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