Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Akhenaton

Best Quotes about Anger

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Pope, Alexander

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thurber, James

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Secker, Thomas

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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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

Greg Evans

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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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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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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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

Ellis, Havelock

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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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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Bible

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

Proverb

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Floyd, Pink

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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