Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger cannot be dishonest.

- Bach, George R.

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

10.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

11.

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

Hull, Bobby

12.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wallenda, Karl

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

18.

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

Boyes, John F.

19.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

20.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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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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Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

30.

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

31.

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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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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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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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

35.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Proverb, Malabar

37.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

39.

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

40.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

41.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Bible

43.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Proverb

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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.

49.

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

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

Pope, Alexander