Motivational Quotes

Anger

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bible

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Fuller, Thomas

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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

10.

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Floyd, Pink

12.

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

13.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

15.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

17.

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.

18.

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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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.

20.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

21.

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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

23.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

29.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

30.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

34.

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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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

36.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

37.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

38.

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

Plato

39.

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

Thurber, James

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

Dickinson, Emily

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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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

Landor, Walter Savage

43.

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

Bible

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

45.

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

Greer, Germaine

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

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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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

Russell, Bertrand