Motivational Quotes

Anger

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Dickinson, Emily

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.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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

Akhenaton

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Seneca

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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

11.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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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 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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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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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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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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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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Bible

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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

37.

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

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

George, David Lloyd

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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Syrus, Publilius

48.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Epictetus