Motivational Quotes

Anger

Depression is rage spread thin.

- Tillich, Paul

Best Quotes about Anger

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Epictetus

The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Landor, Walter Savage

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

10.

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.

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.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

13.

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

Maxim, Samurai

14.

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

Bible

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

Dickinson, Emily

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

Long, Haniel

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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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Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

21.

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

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Quarles, Francis

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

Emily Dickinson

27.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Bible

29.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

30.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

31.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

33.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

34.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

37.

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

Bible

39.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

40.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

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

Joubert, Joseph

43.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

44.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

45.

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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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 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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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace