Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Mario Puzo

10.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

11.

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

Pope, Alexander

12.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

13.

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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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

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

Proverb, Malabar

17.

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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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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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

20.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

21.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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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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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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 a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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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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

28.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

29.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

30.

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

Plato

31.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

32.

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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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

36.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

37.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

38.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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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

48.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

49.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

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

Dyer, Wayne