Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Anger

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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]

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

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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Angelis, Barbara De

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

14.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

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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]

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21.

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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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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Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

24.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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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]

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

32.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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.

38.

Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Walpole, Sir Hugh

39.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Maxim, Samurai

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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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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Shakespeare, William

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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, 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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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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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Pope, Alexander