Motivational Quotes

Anger

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Anger

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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

Mckay, David O.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Plato

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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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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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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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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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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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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

Mario Puzo

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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

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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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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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

Seneca

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

Russell, Bertrand

48.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose