Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher

11.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Greg Evans

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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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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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 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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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Shakespeare, William

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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

Webster, John

29.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Hugo, Victor

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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.

38.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Maxim, Samurai

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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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