Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Mckay, David O.

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

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Ruskin, John

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Proverb

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

Baldwin, James

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

11.

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

Wallenda, Karl

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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

20.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

22.

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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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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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.

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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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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

28.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Proverb

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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Plato

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hugo, Victor

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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

42.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Emily Dickinson

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Mario Puzo

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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.