Motivational Quotes

Anger

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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Best Quotes about 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.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Quarles, Francis

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Proverb

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

Renard, Jules

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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

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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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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Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.