Motivational Quotes

Anger

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

- SeVigne, Marquise De

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb, Malabar

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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

Dickinson, Emily

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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

10.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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

Plato

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

Buddha

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Seneca

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Mckay, David O.

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

34.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Wallenda, Karl

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Sarnoff, David

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

42.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Churchill, Winston

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

48.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos