Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

- Proverb, Malabar

Best Quotes about Anger

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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

George, David Lloyd

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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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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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 is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Greg Evans

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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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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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Buddha

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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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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

42.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Thurber, James

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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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