Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Dyer, Wayne

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Akhenaton

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

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

10.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

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

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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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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Hull, Bobby

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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Angelou, Maya

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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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.

21.

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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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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By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

24.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

25.

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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Buddha

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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Plato

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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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Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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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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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

45.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.