Motivational Quotes

Anger

A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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.

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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

Fuller, Thomas

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Francis De Sales, St.

21.

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 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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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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Sarnoff, David

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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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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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Baldwin, James

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

Secker, Thomas

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

Wallenda, Karl

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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