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

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.

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

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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.

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

Proverb, Malabar

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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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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

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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

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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.

18.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Greg Evans

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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

Syrus, Publilius

27.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb

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

Hugo, Victor

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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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

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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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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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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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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 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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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