Motivational Quotes

Anger

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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.

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Epictetus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

14.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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

Bible

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Horace

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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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

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

Thurber, James

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Joubert, Joseph

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold