Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Anger

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

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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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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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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

Ellis, Havelock

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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

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The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Greer, Germaine

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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]

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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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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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The most dangerous thing is illusion.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Plato

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

Proverb

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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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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Akhenaton

46.

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Anger cannot be dishonest.

Bach, George R.

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

Hugo, Victor

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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

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