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

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Mckay, David O.

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

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Buddha

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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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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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

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

Mario Puzo

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Malabar

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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