Motivational Quotes

Anger

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

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

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Seneca

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Tupper, Martin

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Ruskin, John

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

Ellis, Havelock

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Laurence J. Peter

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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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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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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

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

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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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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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Mario Puzo

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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Shaw, George Bernard

48.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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 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.