Motivational Quotes

Anger

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Shakespeare, William

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

Dyer, Wayne

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

11.

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

Pope, Alexander

12.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

13.

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

Seneca

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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bible

20.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

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

Seneca

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

Plato

28.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

30.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

33.

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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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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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

41.

The best answer to anger is silence.

42.

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

Maxim, Samurai

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Emily Dickinson

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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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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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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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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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin