Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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 most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

10.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

11.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

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

Proverb

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

Horace

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

Bible

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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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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Russell, Bertrand

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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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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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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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

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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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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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.

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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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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

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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

Edwards, Tryon

49.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.