Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Shenstone, William

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Maxim, Samurai

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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.

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Akhenaton

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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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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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 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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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

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]