Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Churchill, Winston

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plato

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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.

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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

Edwards, Tryon

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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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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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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

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

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

Hugo, Victor

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Thurber, James

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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.

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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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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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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.

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Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [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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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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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

Mckay, David O.

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Quincey, Thomas De