Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Shakespeare, William

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

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

Laurence J. Peter

10.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

11.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

12.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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.

22.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Bible

29.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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.

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

Renard, Jules

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

39.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

43.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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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 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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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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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Cervantes, Miguel De