Motivational Quotes

Anger

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Anger

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Shakespeare, William

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Thurber, James

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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

Hugo, Victor

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

11.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

12.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Boyes, John F.

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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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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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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

21.

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

Webster, John

22.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Horace

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

27.

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

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

George, David Lloyd

30.

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

Bible

32.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

33.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

34.

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

35.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

36.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

37.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

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

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

42.

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

43.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

44.

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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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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