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

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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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.

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

Plato

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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

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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.

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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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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Renard, Jules

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Bacon, Francis

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Ellis, Havelock

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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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]

Bible

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Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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