Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Wallenda, Karl

Best Quotes about Anger

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Greg Evans

22.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

23.

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

Webster, John

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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.

25.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maxim, Samurai

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

35.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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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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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

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.