Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Emily Dickinson

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Seneca

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

The best answer to anger is silence.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

13.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

14.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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

17.

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

Pope, Alexander

18.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

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

20.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

24.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

25.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

28.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

29.

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

30.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

31.

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

Bible

32.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

33.

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

Ruskin, John

34.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

35.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

36.

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

37.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

39.

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 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

41.

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

Mizner, Wilson

42.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

43.

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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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.

45.

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

46.

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

Ellis, Havelock

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.