Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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

Fuller, Thomas

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, Malabar

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.

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

Dickinson, Emily

10.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

11.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

13.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

14.

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

15.

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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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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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

18.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

19.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Bible

22.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

23.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

24.

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

Mckay, David O.

25.

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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

Plato

27.

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

28.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

32.

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.

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Proverb

35.

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

Bible

36.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

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

38.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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

Hull, Bobby

42.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

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

Greg Evans

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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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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

46.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward