Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Bible

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Bible

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

Joubert, Joseph

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

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

Mario Puzo

10.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

11.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

12.

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

Proverb

13.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

15.

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

Buddha

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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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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

19.

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.

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

22.

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

Mizner, Wilson

23.

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

Ruskin, John

24.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

25.

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

Webster, John

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

Henry Ward Beecher

31.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

32.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

33.

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

Greg Evans

34.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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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 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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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

38.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

40.

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

Seneca

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

44.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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!