Motivational Quotes

Anger

When danger approaches, sing to it.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Horace

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

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

Quarles, Francis

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Proverb

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

Mizner, Wilson

10.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

11.

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

Thurber, James

12.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.

17.

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

18.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

19.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

20.

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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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

22.

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

Edwards, Tryon

23.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

24.

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

25.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

26.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

27.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

28.

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.

29.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

30.

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

31.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

33.

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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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.

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Emily Dickinson

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

42.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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

44.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

45.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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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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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

49.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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