Motivational Quotes

Anger

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Anger

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Bierce, Ambrose

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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.

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

The best answer to anger is silence.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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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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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

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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

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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

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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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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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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

Shakespeare, William

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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

37.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Malabar

41.

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

Horace

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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Shenstone, William

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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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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Plato

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

Floyd, Pink

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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De