Motivational Quotes

Anger

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

- Lucan, F. L.

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Mckay, David O.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Renard, Jules

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bible

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Hugo, Victor

10.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

11.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Emily Dickinson

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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

18.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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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

21.

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

Bible

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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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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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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.

29.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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]

Bible

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

Dickinson, Emily

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

44.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

45.

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

Mario Puzo

46.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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

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

George, David Lloyd