Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

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Best Quotes about Anger

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Bible

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emily Dickinson

11.

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

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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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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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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mario Puzo

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Secker, Thomas

21.

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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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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Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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 deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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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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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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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bible

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Ruskin, John

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Buddha