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

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

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

Buddha

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Webster, John

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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

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

Emily Dickinson

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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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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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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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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.