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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

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

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Renard, Jules

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Henry Ward Beecher

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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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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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Ellis, Havelock

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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.

16.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

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Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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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

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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.

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mario Puzo

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

30.

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

33.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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

Proverb

36.

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 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.

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

40.

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

Bible

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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!