Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Bacon, Francis

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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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

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

Maxim, Samurai

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The best answer to anger is silence.

13.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Greg Evans

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

Proverb, Malabar

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Proverb

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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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 like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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 may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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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

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

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

Mckay, David O.

39.

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

40.

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

Boyes, John F.

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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Gracian, Baltasar

48.

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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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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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis