Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Plato

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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Seneca

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

Maxim, Samurai

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Pope, Alexander

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

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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 go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mario Puzo

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Bible

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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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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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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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Webster, John

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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Shakespeare, William

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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.