Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Anger

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

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

Plato

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Sarnoff, David

10.

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

Secker, Thomas

11.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

12.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

13.

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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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

15.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Dickinson, Emily

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

25.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ruskin, John

35.

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

Proverb

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

39.

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

Horace

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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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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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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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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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

46.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

47.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Boyes, John F.

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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby