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

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

Hugo, Victor

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

Mario Puzo

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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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

11.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

19.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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

Dickinson, Emily

22.

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

23.

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, 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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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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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

27.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

28.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

29.

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

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30.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

31.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

33.

The best answer to anger is silence.

34.

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

Hull, Bobby

35.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

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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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.

38.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

40.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

41.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

42.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

43.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

44.

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

Quarles, Francis

45.

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

46.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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

48.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

49.

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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Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

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