Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Floyd, Pink

Best Quotes about Anger

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

10.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

25.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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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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 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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Horace

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

42.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Landor, Walter Savage