Motivational Quotes

Anger

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

- Diller, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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

Henry Ward Beecher

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Wallenda, Karl

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

10.

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

Edwards, Tryon

11.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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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.

13.

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

19.

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

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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.

22.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

23.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

24.

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

25.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

28.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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.

32.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

33.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

39.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

42.

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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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

44.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

45.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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 as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.