Motivational Quotes

Anger

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Anger

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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.

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.

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

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

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

Bible

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

Mario Puzo

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

10.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

11.

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

Maxim, Samurai

12.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

13.

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

Floyd, Pink

14.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

15.

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

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

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

Renard, Jules

21.

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

Angelou, Maya

22.

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

Bible

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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

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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.

25.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

27.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

28.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

29.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

30.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

31.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

32.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

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.

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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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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

38.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

39.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

40.

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

43.

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

44.

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

Webster, John

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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

46.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Shenstone, William