Motivational Quotes

Anger

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

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Best Quotes about Anger

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Dyer, Wayne

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Maxim, Samurai

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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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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The best answer to anger is silence.

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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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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A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

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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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Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Churchill, Winston