Quotes about anger

"Depression is rage spread thin."

Tillich, Paul on anger
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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 on anger   

"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."

Twain, Mark on anger
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"The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry."

Unknown, Source on anger
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"Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over."

Unknown, Source on anger   

"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."

Unknown, Source on anger
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"The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry."

Unknown, Source on anger
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"The best answer to anger is silence."

Unknown, Source on anger   

"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."

Unknown, Source on anger
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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."

Unknown, Source on anger
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"Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy."

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

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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."

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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. on anger
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"Keep cool; anger is not an argument."

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

Webster, John on anger   

"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 on anger   

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

Greer, Germaine on anger   

"It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger."

Johnson, Samuel on anger   

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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 on anger   

"By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned."

Pope, Alexander on anger   

"I do desire we may be better strangers."

Shakespeare, William on anger
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"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

Williams, Tennessee on anger
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"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

Aesop on anger
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"Every man is his own chief enemy."

Anacharsis on anger
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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 on anger   

"Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring."

Baxter, Richard on anger   

"The most dangerous people are the ignorant."

Beecher, Henry Ward on anger
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"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 on anger
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"No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause."

Brown, John Mason on anger   

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

Cervantes, Miguel De on anger
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"Danger, the spur of all great minds."

Chapman, George on anger
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"Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"

Churchill, Winston on anger
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"Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result."

Churchill, Winston on anger
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"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."

Colton, Charles Caleb on anger   

"We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger."

Corneille, Pierre on anger
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"To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory."

Corneille, Pierre on anger   

"However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks."

Ellis, Havelock on anger
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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 on anger
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"As soon as there is life there is danger."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anger