Motivational Quotes

Anger

When the danger is past God is cheated.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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.

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Plato

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

Greg Evans

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

10.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Horace

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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

13.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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

Dyer, Wayne

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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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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

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

31.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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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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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Seneca

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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

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Secker, Thomas

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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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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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.