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

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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.

11.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Thurber, James

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

21.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Plato

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

Proverb

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

37.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

Horace

42.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

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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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.

45.

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

Ruskin, John

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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

47.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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