Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Mario Puzo

Best Quotes about Anger

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

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

10.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

11.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

12.

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

Bible

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

Plato

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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

15.

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.

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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

17.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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.

20.

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

21.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

22.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

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

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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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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.

28.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

29.

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

Greg Evans

30.

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

31.

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Ruskin, John

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

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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.

39.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

40.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

42.

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

Emily Dickinson

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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

44.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

45.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

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