Motivational Quotes

Anger

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

- George, David Lloyd

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Freud, Sigmund

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Seneca

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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

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.

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

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

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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

11.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

14.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Plato

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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

Renard, Jules

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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The best answer to anger is silence.

22.

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

Bible

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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

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

Greg Evans

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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hugo, Victor

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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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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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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: 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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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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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.

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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.