Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Anger

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Epictetus

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

11.

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

Plato

12.

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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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

14.

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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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

16.

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

20.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

21.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Maxim, Samurai

25.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

26.

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

30.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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 is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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

Mario Puzo

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

Emily Dickinson

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

40.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

41.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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44.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

45.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

Proverb

47.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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

Hugo, Victor

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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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