Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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.

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.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Emily Dickinson

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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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

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

Epictetus

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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

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

19.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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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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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

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

Webster, John

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Maxim, Samurai

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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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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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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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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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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.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Secker, Thomas

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]