Motivational Quotes

Anger

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Emily Dickinson

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

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

Plato

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

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb

10.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

12.

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

Lucan, F. L.

13.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

14.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

15.

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

16.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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

18.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle

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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.

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Quarles, Francis

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Actually, the streets are quite safe today, it's the people on them who aren't.

26.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

27.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

28.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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

32.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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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

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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

40.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

42.

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

Secker, Thomas

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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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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

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

Webster, John

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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

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