Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Quincey, Thomas De

Best Quotes about Anger

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Hugo, Victor

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Bible

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

11.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Bible

18.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

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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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

George, David Lloyd

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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 cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Shakespeare, William

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Buddha

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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.

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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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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

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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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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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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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

42.

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Seneca

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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