Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Shakespeare, William

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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.

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

Proverb

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

10.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

11.

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

Ellis, Havelock

12.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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.

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Epictetus

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Lucan, F. L.

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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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 the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Clarendon

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Freud, Sigmund

39.

The best answer to anger is silence.

40.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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

Laurence J. Peter

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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

47.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Secker, Thomas

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When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian