Motivational Quotes

Anger

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Anger

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

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.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

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

Proverb

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

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The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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

Mckay, David O.

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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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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

Renard, Jules

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Joubert, Joseph

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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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

Shakespeare, William

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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Bible

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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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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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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

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Ruskin, John

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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

Halifax, Edward F.