Motivational Quotes

Anger

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

10.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean 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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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

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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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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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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.

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

Bible

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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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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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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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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

Proverb

27.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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.

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

Seneca

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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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

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

Secker, Thomas