Motivational Quotes

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.

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

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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.

12.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

13.

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

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bible

17.

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

Mckay, David O.

18.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

19.

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

Lucan, F. L.

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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

21.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

22.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

23.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

24.

The best answer to anger is silence.

25.

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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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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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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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

29.

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

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.

31.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

Bible

33.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

34.

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

35.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Pope, Alexander

38.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

39.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

40.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

41.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

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

Baldwin, James

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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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