Motivational Quotes

Anger

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Proverb, Malabar

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.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

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

Dickinson, Emily

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

12.

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

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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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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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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Lucan, F. L.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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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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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

32.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Mckay, David O.

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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Beecher, Henry Ward