Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Harris, Sidney J.

11.

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Mario Puzo

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Greg Evans

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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

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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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

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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

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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