Motivational Quotes

Anger

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Quarles, Francis

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.

10.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

12.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

13.

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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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

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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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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.

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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

18.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

19.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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

George, David Lloyd

22.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

24.

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

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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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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

27.

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

Hull, Bobby

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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

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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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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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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 is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

33.

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

37.

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

Dyer, Wayne

39.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

43.

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

Proverb, Malabar

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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

45.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Plato

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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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

50.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German