Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Sarnoff, David

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Hull, Bobby

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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.

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

George, David Lloyd

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

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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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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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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

16.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

18.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

27.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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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

40.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

42.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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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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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

45.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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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.