Motivational Quotes

Anger

When the danger is past God is cheated.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Emily Dickinson

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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 most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dickinson, Emily

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

10.

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

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

Seneca

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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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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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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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

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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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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.

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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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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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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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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Proverb

34.

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

Buddha

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

Horace

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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Quarles, Francis

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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

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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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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

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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