Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

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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

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Baldwin, James

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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

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

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Plato

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Greer, Germaine

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.