Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is a brief lunacy.

- Horace

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Bacon, Francis

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

The best answer to anger is silence.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

10.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

11.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

12.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Bible

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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Seneca

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Greg Evans

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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.

25.

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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

28.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

44.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules