Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Angelou, Maya

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]

Bible

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The best answer to anger is silence.

11.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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

15.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

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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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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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Henry, M.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

28.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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.

34.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

41.

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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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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Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Harris, Sidney J.

49.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world.