Motivational Quotes

Anger

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

- Cato The Elder

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Greg Evans

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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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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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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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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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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.

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

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No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

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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

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.