Motivational Quotes

Anger

When the danger is past God is cheated.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Plato

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

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

Angelou, Maya

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Shenstone, William

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

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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

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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 makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Renard, Jules

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Horace

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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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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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

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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

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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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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

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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