Motivational Quotes

Anger

No person is important enough to make me angry.

- Castaneda, Carlos

Best Quotes about Anger

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

Bible

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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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

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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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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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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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.

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Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Laurence J. Peter

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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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

Proverb, Malabar

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Wallenda, Karl

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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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.

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

Horace

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