Motivational Quotes

Anger

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Anger

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

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

Dyer, Wayne

11.

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

Bacon, Francis

12.

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

13.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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

Angelou, Maya

18.

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

Greg Evans

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

20.

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

Mckay, David O.

21.

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

Pope, Alexander

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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

23.

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

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

31.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

32.

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

Quarles, Francis

33.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

35.

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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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

37.

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

Hull, Bobby

38.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

39.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

40.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

41.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

43.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

44.

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.

45.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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

Bible

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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham