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

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Hugo, Victor

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Buddha

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

Plato

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

12.

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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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

18.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Greg Evans

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

Bacon, Francis

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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

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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

30.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

32.

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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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

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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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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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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

38.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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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

40.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

45.

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

Proverb

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

Webster, John

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

Lucan, F. L.