Motivational Quotes

Anger

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

- Barton, Clara

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Bible

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

11.

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

12.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

13.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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.

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

20.

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

Emily Dickinson

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

23.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

24.

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

25.

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

Greer, Germaine

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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

28.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

29.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

30.

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

Shenstone, William

31.

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

Floyd, Pink

32.

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.

Erica Eisdorfer

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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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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

38.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

39.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

40.

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

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

42.

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.

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

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

45.

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

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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

47.

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

Proverb

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The best answer to anger is silence.

50.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De