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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Laurence J. Peter

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Ellis, Havelock

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

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

12.

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, 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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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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.

16.

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

Bible

17.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

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

Secker, Thomas

19.

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.

20.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

21.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

24.

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

25.

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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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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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

28.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

29.

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

30.

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

31.

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

George, David Lloyd

32.

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

33.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

36.

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

37.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

40.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

41.

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

Hugo, Victor

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

47.

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

Wallenda, Karl

48.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.