Motivational Quotes

Anger

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

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

Epictetus

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

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Quarles, Francis

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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 most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

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I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute, said the student. So is the hydrogen bomb, I replied. But think of the damage it produces!

Sweeting, George

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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Proverb, Malabar

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

24.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Fuller, Thomas

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Thurber, James

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Edwards, Tryon

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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Shakespeare, William