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

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Greer, Germaine

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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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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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.

17.

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.

18.

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

20.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

Edwards, Tryon

23.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

24.

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

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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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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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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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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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

40.

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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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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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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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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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

48.

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

Plato