Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Thurber, James

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

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

George, David Lloyd

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

11.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

13.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Greg Evans

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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

21.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Pope, Alexander

23.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Renard, Jules

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

Quarles, Francis

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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

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

Plato

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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.

30.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

31.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hugo, Victor

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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

41.

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

42.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dyer, Wayne

45.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon