Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

Best Quotes about Anger

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.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Hull, Bobby

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

George, David Lloyd

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Proverb

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Greer, Germaine

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

Pope, Alexander

21.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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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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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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Anger is a brief lunacy.

Horace

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The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

Proverb

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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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Depression is rage spread thin.

Tillich, Paul

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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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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

Webster, John

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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare, William

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson