Motivational Quotes

Anger

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

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Anger

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Bible

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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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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 wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Secker, Thomas

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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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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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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

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

Bible

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Seneca

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

Tupper, Martin

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Castaneda, Carlos

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Francis De Sales, St.

31.

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

Plato

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

Bible

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Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Seneca

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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Webster, Daniel

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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

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Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

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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

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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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My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

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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 people are the ignorant.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Thurber, James

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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