Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

- Harriet Lerner

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

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

Greg Evans

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.

The best answer to anger is silence.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

10.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

11.

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

Mckay, David O.

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Maxim, Samurai

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

30.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Akhenaton

42.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

43.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

47.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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