Motivational Quotes

Anger

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

- Colby, Frank Moore

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

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

Seneca

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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

Bible

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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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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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

Plato

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Mario Puzo

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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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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Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Pope, Alexander

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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