Motivational Quotes

Anger

Depression is rage spread thin.

- Tillich, Paul

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Bacon, Francis

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]

Bible

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Shakespeare, William

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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

Bible

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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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Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

21.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Ruskin, John

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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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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

30.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Emily Dickinson

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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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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.

39.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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.

43.

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

Bible

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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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.

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

Bible

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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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