Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Boyes, John F.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Shakespeare, William

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

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

Horace

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

10.

The best answer to anger is silence.

11.

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Proverb, Malabar

13.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

14.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

15.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

17.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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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

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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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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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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: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

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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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

27.

No one is as angry as the person who is wrong.

Proverb

28.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

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I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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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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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Greg Evans

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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

Babylonian Talmud

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

40.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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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 tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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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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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