Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Wallenda, Karl

Best Quotes about Anger

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Maxim, Samurai

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Greg Evans

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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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Bible

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

Wallenda, Karl

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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Proverb, Malabar

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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

39.

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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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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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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

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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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.