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

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bacon, Francis

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

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

The best answer to anger is silence.

10.

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

11.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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

14.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

16.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

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

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

20.

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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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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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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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 words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

25.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Seneca

27.

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

Bible

28.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

29.

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

Ruskin, John

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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

31.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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

Landor, Walter Savage

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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