Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Anger

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Plato

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

12.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Greer, Germaine

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bible

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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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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

28.

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

Edwards, Tryon

29.

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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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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

34.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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

Bible

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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Webster, John

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus