Motivational Quotes

Anger

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

- Chapman, George

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hugo, Victor

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

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

Proverb

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

Wallenda, Karl

10.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

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

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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

18.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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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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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bible

23.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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.

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

Plato

27.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ruskin, John

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

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

Laurence J. Peter

33.

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

Bible

34.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

42.

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

Greer, Germaine

43.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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