Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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

Mario Puzo

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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

Dyer, Wayne

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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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

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

Proverb

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

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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.

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

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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