Motivational Quotes

Anger

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Emily Dickinson

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Proverb

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

10.

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.

11.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Renard, Jules

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bible

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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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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

28.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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

Greg Evans

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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.

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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

38.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

44.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

49.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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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