Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

The best answer to anger is silence.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Mario Puzo

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

Thurber, James

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.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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

10.

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

11.

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

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

Bible

13.

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

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Cherie Carter-Scott

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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

17.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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

Hull, Bobby

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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

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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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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

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

25.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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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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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

28.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

30.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

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.

33.

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

Syrus, Publilius

34.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

35.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Landor, Walter Savage

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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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