Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shaw, George Bernard

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sarnoff, David

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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 is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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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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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Shakespeare, William

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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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 is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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 is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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The best answer to anger is silence.

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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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Floyd, Pink

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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne