Motivational Quotes

Anger

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

- Selden, John

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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

George, David Lloyd

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bible

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

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

10.

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

Pope, Alexander

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

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.

14.

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

Joubert, Joseph

15.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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 itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

20.

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

Buddha

21.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

25.

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

Floyd, Pink

26.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

33.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

34.

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

35.

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

Thurber, James

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

39.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ruskin, John

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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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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.

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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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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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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

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baldwin, James

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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