Motivational Quotes

Anger

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Anger

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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.

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

Thurber, James

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Greer, Germaine

10.

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.

11.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

12.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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 most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Boyes, John F.

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Bible

34.

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

Plato

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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.

Emily Dickinson

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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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Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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

Hugo, Victor

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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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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