Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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.

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

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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

Shakespeare, William

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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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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.

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Emily Dickinson

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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

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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Fuller, Thomas

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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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 best answer to anger is silence.

42.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Fuller, Thomas

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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