Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

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

Ruskin, John

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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.

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

Plato

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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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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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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.

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

Floyd, Pink

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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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 itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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

Buddha

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

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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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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.

38.

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Renard, Jules

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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

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Mario Puzo

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Russell, Bertrand