Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Floyd, Pink

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Shenstone, William

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

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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 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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

13.

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Plato

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

17.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

28.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

31.

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

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Francis De Sales, St.

42.

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

Renard, Jules

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

45.

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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.