Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Renard, Jules

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

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

Buddha

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

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

10.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

11.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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 more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

16.

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

Ellis, Havelock

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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

18.

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

19.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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

24.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

25.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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

Laurence J. Peter

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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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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

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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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

33.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

35.

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

George, David Lloyd

36.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

37.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

38.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

40.

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

Bible

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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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.

44.

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

Hugo, Victor

45.

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

Webster, John

46.

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

Floyd, Pink

47.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

48.

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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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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

Ruskin, John