Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Proverb, Malabar

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Wallenda, Karl

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Plato

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

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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.

10.

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

Emily Dickinson

11.

Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

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

George, David Lloyd

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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Horace

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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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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

25.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Laurence J. Peter

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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

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There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

Dickinson, Emily

35.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Proverb

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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

38.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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

Greer, Germaine

41.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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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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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Thurber, James