Motivational Quotes

Anger

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Anger

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Hugo, Victor

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Mckay, David O.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

10.

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

Plato

11.

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

Sarnoff, David

12.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

13.

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

Freud, Sigmund

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Mario Puzo

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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

20.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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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.

25.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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.

28.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

29.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

30.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

31.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

32.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

33.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

George, David Lloyd

37.

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

38.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

39.

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

Thurber, James

40.

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

Ruskin, John

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

42.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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

44.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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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

46.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

47.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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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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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

50.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace