Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Walpole, Sir Hugh

Best Quotes about Anger

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

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

Mckay, David O.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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.

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

Hugo, Victor

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

12.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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

14.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

15.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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]

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17.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

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20.

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

Quarles, Francis

21.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

Syrus, Publilius

25.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

27.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

28.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

30.

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

Renard, Jules

31.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

32.

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

Proverb

33.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Joubert, Joseph

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

36.

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

Plato

37.

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

Greg Evans

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

40.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

41.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

42.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

The best answer to anger is silence.

44.

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

45.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

46.

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.

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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

48.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

49.

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

50.

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]

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