Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

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

Webster, John

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Greg Evans

11.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

12.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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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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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

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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Proverb

18.

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Horace

22.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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

Bible

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Seneca

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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

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

George, David Lloyd

31.

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

Mario Puzo

32.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mckay, David O.

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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

Maxim, Samurai