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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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

Epictetus

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Horace

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

Mario Puzo

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

Bible

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

11.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

12.

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

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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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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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

18.

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.

19.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

20.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

21.

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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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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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

24.

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

25.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

26.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

29.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

30.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

31.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

32.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

33.

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

Lucan, F. L.

34.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

35.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

38.

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

Greer, Germaine

39.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

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 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

42.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

43.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Emily Dickinson

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