Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Floyd, Pink

Best Quotes about Anger

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Seneca

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Plato

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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

11.

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

Proverb, Malabar

12.

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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

14.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

16.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

17.

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

Renard, Jules

18.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

20.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

21.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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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.

26.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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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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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hugo, Victor

31.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

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.

35.

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

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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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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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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.

43.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Fuller, Thomas