Motivational Quotes

Anger

When the danger is past God is cheated.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Anger

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

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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

Joubert, Joseph

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Dickinson, Emily

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

10.

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

Maxim, Samurai

11.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

12.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

13.

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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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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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 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

17.

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

Seneca

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Sarnoff, David

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

23.

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

Seneca

24.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

25.

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

Thurber, James

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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

30.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Greer, Germaine

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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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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.

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Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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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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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

38.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Landor, Walter Savage

41.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Aurelius, Marcus

44.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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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.

49.

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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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