Motivational Quotes

Anger

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Anger

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hugo, Victor

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

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Angelis, Barbara De

11.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

12.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Ruskin, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

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

Thurber, James

27.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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

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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

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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

33.

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

34.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

35.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

36.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

37.

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

38.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Halifax, Edward F.

41.

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

Renard, Jules

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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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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]

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44.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

45.

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

Proverb, Malabar

46.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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

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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, 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 words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

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