Motivational Quotes

Anger

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.

Best Quotes about Anger

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Renard, Jules

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Pope, Alexander

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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

14.

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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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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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

30.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Thurber, James

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

Mario Puzo

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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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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.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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 is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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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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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 intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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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

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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas