Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

George, David Lloyd

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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

Angelou, Maya

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

10.

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

11.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

12.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

14.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Bible

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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.

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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

Bible

21.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

24.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

25.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb

30.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

The best answer to anger is silence.

32.

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

33.

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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

37.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

41.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

42.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Dyer, Wayne

45.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

50.

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

Halifax, Edward F.