Motivational Quotes

Anger

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Anger

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Shaw, George Bernard

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

10.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

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

Russell, Bertrand

17.

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: 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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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

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

Floyd, Pink

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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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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Plato

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

32.

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

Emily Dickinson

33.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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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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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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Proverb

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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.