Motivational Quotes

Anger

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

Schuller, Robert H.

A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.

Kundera, Milan

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Greg Evans

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

11.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Mario Puzo

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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.

Buddha

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

21.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Bible

29.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb

31.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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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

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb, Malabar

41.

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

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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha