Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Laurence J. Peter

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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

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

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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

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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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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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Ruskin, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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

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

Emily Dickinson

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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Floyd, Pink

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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 best answer to anger is silence.

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

Seneca

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Mckay, David O.

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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]

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