Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Sarnoff, David

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Greg Evans

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

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

Buddha

10.

The best answer to anger is silence.

11.

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

Greer, Germaine

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

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

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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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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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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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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Renard, Jules

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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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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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

37.

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

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

Bible

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

Mario Puzo

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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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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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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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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Russell, Bertrand