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.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Sivananda, Sri Swami

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

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

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

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

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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 as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Proverb, Malabar

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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

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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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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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Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Boyes, John F.

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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Seneca

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The best answer to anger is silence.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

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Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

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When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich