Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

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

Bible

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

Landor, Walter Savage

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hugo, Victor

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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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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

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Pope, Alexander

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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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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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bible

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Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

Akhenaton

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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 best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder