Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Renard, Jules

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Greer, Germaine

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

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

Seneca

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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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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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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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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

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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.

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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

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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

Plato

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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 is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]

Bible

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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20]

Bible

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Buddha

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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 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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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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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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An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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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.

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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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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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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.