Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Fuller, Thomas

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Bible

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Francis De Sales, St.

10.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

11.

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

12.

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

15.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Churchill, Winston

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

27.

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.

28.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Plato

33.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

34.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

35.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

38.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

42.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

44.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

45.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

46.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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