Motivational Quotes

Anger

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Anger

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]

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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

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

Magnus, Saint Albertus

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

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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

Fuller, Thomas

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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Plato

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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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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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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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 at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

Greg Evans

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

Wallenda, Karl

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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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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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A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.

Erica Eisdorfer

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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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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

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

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