Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

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

Buddha

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Shakespeare, William

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

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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

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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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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

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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

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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: 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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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

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

Greg Evans

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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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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.