Motivational Quotes

Anger

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

- Magnus, Saint Albertus

Best Quotes about Anger

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Renard, Jules

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

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

11.

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

Dyer, Wayne

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

21.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

22.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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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

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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

28.

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

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

30.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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

Russell, Bertrand

33.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proverb

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

38.

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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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.

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Boyes, John F.

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Ellis, Havelock