Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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 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.

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mckay, David O.

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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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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

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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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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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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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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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

Walpole, Sir Hugh

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Ellis, Havelock

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Emily Dickinson

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Floyd, Pink

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Proverb

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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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