Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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

10.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

11.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

12.

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.

13.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

14.

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 triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

16.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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

Greg Evans

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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Bible

22.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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.

24.

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

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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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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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 broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

29.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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

32.

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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

34.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Quarles, Francis

41.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

42.

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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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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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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

Emily Dickinson

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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.

47.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin