Motivational Quotes

Anger

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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

Quarles, Francis

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

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.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Maxim, Samurai

10.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

11.

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

Hull, Bobby

12.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

13.

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

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Joubert, Joseph

17.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

18.

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.

19.

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 deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

21.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

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

Mario Puzo

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

Shakespeare, William

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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

26.

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

Sarnoff, David

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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

28.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

31.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

32.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

33.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

34.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

35.

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

Edwards, Tryon

36.

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.

Buddha

37.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

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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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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

40.

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

41.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

42.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

44.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

45.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

46.

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

Proverb

47.

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

Buddha

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

49.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

50.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese