Motivational Quotes

Anger

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Anger

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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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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Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Akhenaton

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

Mckay, David O.

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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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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bible

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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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

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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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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.

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

Proverb

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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Seneca

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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.

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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.

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

Hugo, Victor

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