Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Mario Puzo

Best Quotes about Anger

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

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

10.

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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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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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.

13.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Emily Dickinson

15.

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

Boyes, John F.

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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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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.

18.

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

Horace

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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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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.

21.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

23.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

24.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

25.

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

Mario Puzo

26.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

27.

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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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

29.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

30.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Ruskin, John

33.

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

34.

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

Plato

35.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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.

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

38.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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

George, David Lloyd

40.

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.

41.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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

43.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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