Motivational Quotes

Anger

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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

Edwards, Tryon

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.

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

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

14.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

15.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

16.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

17.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

18.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

20.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

21.

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 continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Seneca

25.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

Wallenda, Karl

27.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

28.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

29.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

30.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

32.

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

33.

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

Russell, Bertrand

34.

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

35.

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

Thurber, James

36.

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

Renard, Jules

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

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

Greg Evans

39.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Mckay, David O.

44.

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

45.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

46.

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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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