Motivational Quotes

Anger

When the danger is past God is cheated.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Anger

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

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

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

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

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

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

Thurber, James

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Buddha

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

27.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

33.

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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No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

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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 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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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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

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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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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace