Motivational Quotes

Anger

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Anger

We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Renard, Jules

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

Thurber, James

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Bible

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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

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When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

23.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Seneca

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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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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

43.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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 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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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