Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Cherie Carter-Scott

Best Quotes about Anger

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

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

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.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Mario Puzo

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Bible

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Bible

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Hugo, Victor

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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

Secker, Thomas

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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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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

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Fuller, Thomas