Motivational Quotes

Anger

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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.

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

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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

11.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

19.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Russell, Bertrand

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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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

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

Renard, Jules

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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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.

38.

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.