Motivational Quotes

Anger

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

- Quincey, Thomas De

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Quarles, Francis

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

10.

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

George, David Lloyd

11.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

13.

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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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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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

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

Mario Puzo

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

Lucan, F. L.

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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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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

29.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Thurber, James

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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

34.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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

36.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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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]

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Plato

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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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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold