Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Greg Evans

Best Quotes about Anger

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb

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

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

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

Greg Evans

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

10.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

11.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

12.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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

Syrus, Publilius

15.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

16.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

17.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

18.

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

Laurence J. Peter

19.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

25.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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

28.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Harris, Sidney J.

31.

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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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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

Plato

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Thurber, James

37.

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

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

40.

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

Russell, Bertrand

41.

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

Mizner, Wilson

42.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

44.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

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

Bible

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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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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.