Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Anger

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Bible

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sarnoff, David

10.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

11.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

12.

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

13.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

15.

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

16.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

17.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

18.

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

Fuller, Thomas

19.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

20.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

21.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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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.

26.

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

Emily Dickinson

27.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

30.

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

Baldwin, James

31.

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

Joubert, Joseph

32.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

Plato

35.

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

Proverb

36.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Syrus, Publilius

44.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.