Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

The best answer to anger is silence.

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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

Dickinson, Emily

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Seneca

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

10.

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

Hull, Bobby

11.

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

Bible

12.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Laurence J. Peter

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

20.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

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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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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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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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

35.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

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

41.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

42.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

43.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

44.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus