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

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

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

Webster, John

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

Landor, Walter Savage

I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Mario Puzo

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

Proverb

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

Pope, Alexander

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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

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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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Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

30.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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

Wallenda, Karl

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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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

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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Hugo, Victor

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

Ellis, Havelock

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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

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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