Motivational Quotes

Anger

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Anger

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

Secker, Thomas

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Proverb

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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

Ruskin, John

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

Hugo, Victor

11.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

12.

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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Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

Shakespeare, William

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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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 deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

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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

24.

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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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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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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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

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The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

White, Elwyn Brooks

30.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

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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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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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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Landor, Walter Savage

37.

The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

Joubert, Joseph

42.

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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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 like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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

Floyd, Pink

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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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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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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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

George, David Lloyd

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

Bacon, Francis