Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Greer, Germaine

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

11.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Bible

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

Bible

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Malabar

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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.

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

Hull, Bobby

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

Bible

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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.

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

Seneca

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Edwards, Tryon

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

Wallenda, Karl

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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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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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