Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Floyd, Pink

Best Quotes about 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

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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

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

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

Edwards, Tryon

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Malabar

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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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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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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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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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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 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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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The best answer to anger is silence.

31.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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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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Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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.

37.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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

Angelou, Maya

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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John