Motivational Quotes

Anger

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Hugo, Victor

The best answer to anger is silence.

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

11.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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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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

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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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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 most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Buddha

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

28.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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

Bible

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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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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Seneca

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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

Churchill, Winston

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